Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showcase for the art of Ailey's premiere danseuse Judith Jamison. Elegant of long limb, eloquent of stride and poise, Jamison epitomizes Ailey's ideal of the total dancer. Ailey has created a work that has become for Jamison the kind of showpiece that The Dying Swan was for Pavlova. Cry, set to music by Laura Nyro, Alice Coltrane and others, embodies the pain and pride of black women everywhere...
...looked for a while as though the Crimson would down the Canadians as Andy Wiegand jumped to a 2-0 lead over their number-one man, Jim Swan...
...Swan came back to win three straight and Harvard lost the match...
...Andy was very disappointed, of course, but I told him he had played very well against one of the better guys around. Why, Swan made the semis of the singles championship two years ago," said Barnaby...
...walks to the Swan tavern to meet Sarah Udall, recording his aims, in bastard French, to "kiss and see mamelles...comgram plaisir." He reports to the royal council on the victualing of the fleet, and is complimented by "the King afterward, who doth now know me so well, that he never sees me but he speaks to me about our Navy business...