Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dowry of rifles, hatchets, knives and clothes did Obakharok, chief of a New Guinea headhunting tribe, agree to marry American Anthropologist Wyn Sargent last year. Sargent described her jungle adventures in the book My Life With the Headhunters, but this month Obakharok gave his own version of the tale in an interview with Paris-Match. Though his bride eschewed Max Factor for a coating of pig fat and soot, reports Obakharok, it seems the chief came down with a case of marital blahs on his wedding night. Even the prayers of his villagers ("Make our beloved chief, so valiant...
...Film Board for many years, films with names like Fiddie-De-Dee and Hoppity-Pop and Blinkety Blank. He is highly acclaimed by some as a pioneer in experimental cinema--particularly of the stop-motion technique. Other titles by McLaren include Dots and Loops, Boogie Doodie and A Chairy Tale. I've only seen one of these little nightmares, the one most commonly shown in this country, something called Pas de Deux. In fact, I must have seen it 300 times--it seems like everytime I settle back for some good light feature the distant toot of panpipes (Panpipes...
Almost every student has his or her horror story--such as the 15-person sophomore tutorial in East Asian Studies last year--or tale of woe--the Freshman Seminar/-concentration/course-not-gotten-into series of tearjerkers--to tell. The prospect of even a 5 per cent increase in undergraduate enrollment does little to cheer them...
...Queen and Country" is a tale of the adventurous life a sailor encounters during the sack and pillage of enemy nations. Eventually the sailor tires of the women and treasures exotic lands can offer and reappraises his own self worth and allegiance to his country...
Essentially, the problem is the choreography. It is almost as much mime as ballet. The story is a complicated slap stick tale about a flirtatious town clown, his enemies and his inamorata (complete with mistaken identities, a fake death and an implausibly happy ending) that defies compression as well as credibility. Massine's scenario is too highly stylized to allow for many low jinks; the result is commedia dell'arte without any comedy, Punch-and-Judy minus the punch. The occasional moments of raffish humor are all provided by quick-legged Gary Chryst, 24, who leaps, whirls, jigs...