Search Details

Word: swanning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Kremlinologists in the West have long speculated that Soviet Communist Boss Leonid Brezhnev would sing his swan song at this year's 25th Party Congress. Some swan song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Rubber-Stamping the Status Quo | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...styles. Balanchine's neoclassic ballet Agon floats serenely alongside Geoffrey Holder's mysterious, pulsating Dougla and the virtuoso Russian display pas de deux from Le Corsaire. There is, however, no Giselle. "You'd be surprised how many people feel that because we're not doing Swan Lake that we are not a classical company," Mitchell told TIME'S Rosemarie Tauris. "We don't have enough people or finances to do big 19th century ballets. D.T.H. is not about to do an anemic, rundown Swan Lake; anyway, it's a contemporary company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Classical Ballet with Soul | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Look, the Swan Queen is not a woman, she is a bird-why can't we do Swan Lake with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Faux Pas | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...most vacuous numbers he has ever penned. Even Bowie's new idol, Frank Sinatra, might think twice before crooning, "For we're creatures of the wind/Wild as the wind? I hear the sound of mandolins..." Let's pray it doesn't become his swan song...

Author: By Brad Collins, | Title: David Bowie and Falling Glitter | 2/26/1976 | See Source »

...Brandeis quintet had gone into its swan song and had yet to emerge from the profound torpor. In a singular exhibition of botched marksmanship, the Judges repeatedly rent the oxygen with reckless abandon from any and all points on the floor, as their shooting percentage rivalled the life expenctancy of starved fruit flies...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Double Hoop Blowout in IAB | 2/13/1976 | See Source »

Previous | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | Next