Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reading the national newspapers and news magazines in the week since Gerald Ford became president has been like glancing at a notice in big black letters: CLOSED FOR HONEYMOON. At this crucial point of political transformation in Washington, we eagerly look to journalists to continue the superb reporting that has characterized the Watergate era. Instead, we are assaulted by a swarm of sugary platitudes that would lead us to believe that Shirley Temple has just been installed as our 38th president. Rather than reading about Gerald Ford's congressional record on civil rights, his position on welfare, his views...
...applause for the Trinity Square Repertory Company's superb production of Israel Horowitz's Alfred the Great dies down and the audience begins to file out of the theater while the house lights come up, one feels slightly cheated--as if after savoring a fine appetizer the waiter has come to say that the main course will be indefinitely delayed. The appetite has been whetted and the palate prepared for a meal that never comes...
...Rudolf Nureyev, the first Kirov refugee, astonished Western audiences with his heroic bursts of explosive movement, animal magnetism and sheer showmanship, not to say showboatery. Baryshnikov is a dancer of equal authority but far different style. He is short, and his slightly chunky body seems to belong to a superb athlete as well as an artist. He floated Makarova overhead as though she had no more substance than a chiffon gown. His phenomenal double turns in air and grands jetês were done with a breathtaking ease that did not call attention to itself. Yet he conveyed an almost...
...huge, half-crazed crowd. Word is that the Monday concert may be already sold out, but that Don Law, the Bill Graham of Boston, is trying to schedule a second one for Tuesday. The problem with CSNY is not that they aren't each good--they're superb rock musicians--but that they're a collection of colossal egos. On the rare occasions when they're getting along with each other, their concerts are terrific, but the rest of the time each one tries to dominate and play long solos, so it all falls apart--all of which...
From the standpoint of carefully outlining exactly what all of the potential construction, renovation, purchase, demolition and other physical alterations Harvard could possibly encounter for this time period, Bose and those who worked on the plan have done a thorough and superb job. It is hard to imagine any ordinary project suddenly appearing on the horizon that has not been foretold in this report. The report, then, is more one that indicates the alternatives for future planning than one that offers a blueprint for Harvard's future physical projects...