Word: swivels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action hopping on the set, he will often shout out the desired rhythms like a ballet master: "One-two-and-three-and-four" His own movement is jitterbug. He will bound off his chair to correct a camera angle, touch up the scenery, or show an actress how to swivel her hips. "Actors like to be told how to act, not shown," says Matthau, "but with Kelly, his great body movements reveal what he wants...
Merely by turning his head, the pilot of an experimental Bell helicopter can cause a highly sensitive TV camera mounted in the nose of his craft to swivel in the same direction. And since the camera can "see" in the dark, its TV images, reflected onto special eyeglasses, give the pilot invaluable, owl-like vision at night...
...members got their start on the Amateur Hour. Some of the richest of them flunked their first test. One night 81 years ago, the audience awarded first prize to a South American who played the laurel leaf, while voting down another contestant, Ann-Margret. And in 1953, a swivel-hipped lad named Elvis Presley didn't get past the first audition...
...only guest conductor scheduled to lead the Houston Symphony, and nobody will be the least bit surprised if he eventually replaces 66-year-old Conductor Sir John Barbirolli. Previn does not expect that any of this will turn his head, which might be on a swivel by now. Conducting is the only phase of music in which he feels he has yet to prove himself. "I'm not so conceited as to go on conducting if everyone thinks I'm no good," he sighs. "I have to have some kind of encouragement...
Future Step. The choreography for the 34-minute ballet was also slightly schizophrenic, a mixture rather than a melding of styles in which classical techniques alternated with the swivel and sway of modern dance. The action was fluent and quick moving. It spilled out in a stream of consciousness that followed no clearly defined course but swirled into moments of great beauty. What Nureyev's flights of fancy lacked was strong musical accompaniment. Hans Werner Henze's complex score was dense without being deep, an anemic, meandering work that undercut rather than underscored the choreography. Nureyev was forced...