Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most successful offerings: Alvin Ailey's Feast of Ashes, a tragic, turbulent story of matriarchal domination; Stuart Hodes's The Abyss, a tale of rape and lost innocence eloquently danced by Lone Isaksen, a young Danish girl who sticks out as the troupe's most promising soloist; Alley's Ariadne, highlighted by a fearsome battle between Theseus and a horde of minotaurs. Tradition was provided by Prima Ballerina Marjorie Tallchief (Skibine's wife and sister of the New York City Ballet's Maria Tallchief) and the famed Danish dancer Erik Bruhn as guest artist...
...their compatriots' hangings. But they let us know from the start that no one's really going to get hanged, that the raging and weeping histrionics are no more than over-acting (though done with skill and polish), that what we are seeing is only a beggar's tale...
...justify a common tale of self...
Michigan beat the Tigers 93-76 last night in Portland, Ore., ending the beautiful fairy tale that millions of credulous adults all over the country had wanted badly to believe in. The dragon wasn't slain, the glass slipper didn't fit, and the children went to bed crying...
...League will just have to wait for another superman, and another fairy tale...