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On the podium he is athletic but correct. His baton sweeps in wide, generous arcs and his left hand constantly beckons music from the air. His body dips and sways like a dancer's, and his classic profile flashes now right, now left, like a lighthouse beacon. He has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: The Schippers Festival | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

The camera, itself carried by an exquisitely intelligent (and spiritually inclined) wild ass (representing the fifth of the deadly sins, anal retention), sways rhythmically up and down, generating a subtle, but unmistakable aura of coitus. Jockeying back and forth into view were Jacques Tati and Mme. de Gaulle playing mudgutter...

Author: By Yvor Phylmes, | Title: The Vestments of Orpheus | 11/28/1962 | See Source »

A rose sways least.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry in English: 1945-62 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

Launched by Pop Singer Chubby Checkers in Philadelphia over a year ago and taken up by teen-aged faddists across the country, The Twist at first was an innocent enough dance; it has since been largely discarded in favor of such refinements as "The Roach" and "The Fly." But the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Instant Fad | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

The horror of Electra is not mythic but domestic. In the rasping quarrels of Electra with her mother and sister, modern playgoers will find hints of those vicious family fights that occupy whole scenes of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. The difference is that Sophocles'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Heroes, Gods & Women | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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