Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nijinsky is Béjart's most ostentatious work to date. In it his flair for the spectacular, the mod and the grotesque is overwhelming, in ways that admittedly may whelm some more than others. Equipped with enough stage runways for a good suburban airport, adorned ominously by the obligatory -or so it seems these days-cross of Calvary, Nijinsky is essentially an old-fashioned allegory play dolled up for the stoned age. Its recounting of the life of the great Russian dancer is set to a schizoid musical score (electronics by Pierre Henry, schmalz by Tchaikovsky...
...group of female "Nixonettes" composed of Melrose High School and UMass cheerleaders attempted to inspire chants of "four more years" but the celebration retained the atmosphere of a suburban cocktail party...
Appearing at 11:15 Moakley told the crowd that he was optimistic "I have a victory speech, but I'll postpone it for a couple of hours when the suburban votes come in," he said...
Moakley researches expected suburban rules to give him the election, but these votes remained the unknown factor until early in the morning. "When I'm elected tomorrow, we're going to put voting machines out in those towns," Moakley said...
With virtually all of the city precincts reporting. Hicks held a 300-vote margin in returns from her old 9th District city precincts. Returns from the newly added suburban areas, where votes were can by paper ballots, were not expected for two more hours...