Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schiff s catalogue essay does an excellent job of dissecting and analyzing the themes of late Picasso, but there are moments when he goes right off the edge. The last period, he declares, "is not a 'swan song,' but the apotheosis of his career." A ten-dollar word: it means transformation into a god. It is what mad Nero dreamed of; and now, on the theological authority vested in the Guggenheim Museum and its trustees, it has come to "Ol' Cojones...
...have any business trying to stop those who like to sit by the runway and imbibe this form of expression. It may not be Swan Lake, but the First Amendment does not hinge on judgments of artistic merit or even redeeming value...
...Swan Lake, Minnesota (ARTS). Swan maidens in tutus riding bales of hay up a conveyor belt? This poetic, disarmingly simple adaptation of the classic ballet inventively mixed a country-and-western twang with Tchaikovskian lyricism...
...says the present version "is the most important thing I have ever done." Director Meyer calls the movie "the most valuable thing I've ever done with my life." Mayor David Longhurst has invited Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov to Lawrence for a summit. Another Lawrence citizen, Bob Swan, member of the antinuke Let Lawrence Live organization, says he is trying to link up his home town by television or telephone to Leningrad, so that Soviets and Americans can hash things out person to person. After the broadcast, ABC will put on a special 45-min. edition of Viewpoint...
...York Rangers, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Knicks in a single season? (Organist Gladys Gooding.) Who was Bram Stoker's most infamous character? (Dracula.) What's the only country crossed by both the equator and Tropic of Capricorn? (Brazil.) What's a newly hatched swan called? (A cygnet.) Who portrayed Tonto on TV? (Jay Silverheels...