Word: taught
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suffering is Achkar's announcement that my colon is in "perfect condition." It does not feel that way: all that air pumped inside me has brought on cramps that contort my gut. Debby counsels me to let it out. "This is one time to forget everything your grandmother taught you about good manners," she tells...
...just good common sense that children in school first learn A, B, C before they are taught AOL? PATRICK DISANTE Harrisburg...
...soared through the air--that caught on, becoming the cornerstone of postwar modern dance. Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris--all are Graham's children and grandchildren. (Taylor and Cunningham even danced in her company, though they later repudiated her high-strung style.) Her methods are routinely taught today in studios the world over, but you need not have studied them or even have seen any of her dances to be influenced by them. They are part of the air every contemporary dancer breathes...
...seven years with Denishawn, Graham moved to New York City and struck out on her own, giving solo recitals and eventually launching her own company, in 1929. To raise funds, she danced at the opening of Radio City Music Hall, modeled furs and later gave classes in which she taught such actors as Bette Davis and Gregory Peck how to move. (Richard Boone claimed that to die onscreen, he simply did a one-count Graham fall.) But nothing could deflect her from what she believed to be her sacred mission: to "chart the graph of the heart" through movement. "That...
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