Word: swanning
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...always had its share of great beauties, who perhaps by their very rarity moved poets to rhapsodies and courtiers to either folly or matrimony. Endowed with broad brow, straight nose (admired by Englishmen in both their hounds and their women) and what 17th Century Poet Robert Herrick termed a "swan straining, faire, rare stately neck," isolated beauties from Charles II's Nell Gwyn to Lady Hamilton have shared with Edwardian Actress Lily Langtry the brow, the neck, a mass of lovely hair, and skin like an English rose...
...campaign. The old pols were disgusted, until Jack and his youthful supporters won handsomely, with 42% of the vote. On the night of the primary victory, old Honey Fitz, 83, crawled up on a table, danced a stiff-legged Irish jig and sang Sweet Adeline. It was the swan song for the old, colorful and rascally breed of Boston Irish politics...
...four ballet evenings, the Festival presented a company headed by Andre Eglevsky (who had also performed at the 1956 and 1958 Festivals). Paired up with Melissa Hayden, the two demonstrated their renowned artistry in pas de deux from Tchaikovsky's Black Swan and Delibe's Sylvia. The pleasantest surprise was the dancing of young Edward Villella; his entrechats were breathtaking, and his consummate general control clearly places him on the verge of a noble career. Most of the dancers in the company were from the New York City Ballet. Among the other items on the program was the world premiere...
...capitalist West through a planned ''international division of labor." In Bucharest last week, Nikita Khrushchev crowed: "Obviously the imperialists do not like our cooperation. They would like our countries to be like the team in the well-known fable in which the crayfish is backing, the swan strains toward the sky, and the pike pulls toward the water...
Beauty & the Bestial. The swan-dappled Avon may have been the Styx to a London actor, but the best touring companies played in Stratford. Englamoured by them, Shakespeare, some time around 1587, left for the big town and joined an acting company. As actor and playwright, Will was a quick study...