Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Introspection: Vicki Rubin and Lydia Sargent try unsuccessfully to invent a personal form of dance to express their inner thoughts. Working with a company untrained in even the most basic modern dance forms, even the two pieces in the program which are drawn from a recognizable style ("Yearning" uses tap dancing) or on a communicable idea ("Taking a Walk" uses interesting combinations of men and women taking strolls together) don't work. May 1 at 8 p.m. at 15 Newbury Street in Boston. Tickets...
...Center last week, renews that comic tradition, and its success in television, movies and now, onstage, shows that many audiences are parched for it. If there is anything novel about the Pythonites (six men, with extras for this production), it is only that they are practicing comic karate, English-style, and Americans always find it strangely exotic to think of the British as vulgar, irreverent, silly, violent and sexual, both straight and kinky, all of which they...
...frightened new owner of the Atlanta Braves." Dry land athletic competition may be a new game for Turner, but of one thing he is certain: "The principles in sailing and baseball are the same. You go at it to win, and you do so with as much style and grace as you can muster." Bill Veeck could not have said it better...
...defending lightweight sprints champ gave a quick and concise lesson in the art of fine rowing on Saturday as the Terriers rowed through the Radcliffe lights in impressive style en route to a four-length...
Present Laughter is especially interesting as a period piece, for it represents a style of comedy that is no longer written for the stage. Noel Coward was a member of the British aristocratic leisure class and his characters were reflections of his own lifestyle. These days the stock medium for these characters is satire. Their frivolous preoccupation with style and good form seems merely ludicrous. They are difficult to identify with so it now seems more appropriate to laugh at them rather than with them. But despite these changes in attitude, Present Laughter is still an effective comedy because Coward...