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...great thrill for the team." Captain Paul Chicarello said yesterday. "No doubt about it. It was the definite highlight of the trip...
...from Richard. "He's got a knife!" "A knife," his mother screams back, "Of course he has knife! We all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!" For barbarians, the Plantagenets pack in impressive wallop to the modern sensibility. Were they subtle and sophisticated, we might not thrill...
This week Nureyev is performing nightly with the Boston Ballet in his own production of Don Quixote. Although watching him is still a thrill, his technical shortcomings are especially conspicuous in the role of Basilio. This romantic lead requires a more blithe, more innocently carefree personality than comes naturally to Rudolf Nureyev the world-wise and world-weary. Nureyev's cockiness and arrogance overpower principal dancer Marie-Christine Mouis (who alternates the role of Kitri-Dulcinea with Laura Young): in his arms, she seems nervous, skittish, more than a trifle unsure of her suitor's affections...
...audience does thrill to it. Rhetoric though they be, Miller's fiery prophecies of revolution, Reiffel's well-padded complacency and the workers' vignettes of woe create a momentum that overcomes the pragmatic 1980s assumption that "nothing is ever that simple." Director Josh Milton's fine sense of timing and placement melds the difficult mancuvers of lockstep group motion and robot-like dance rhythms to reinforce a visceral feeling of brewing social pressure, of the inevitable coming explosion...
Though a lot of "messed up" guys is as specific as anyone gets, it is easy to believe the whispered reports that quite a few players get a kick from cocaine, and mere alcohol doesn't thrill them at all. There probably isn't a place of affluence anywhere in sports or society where consciences or nasal passages are completely clear; and the National Basketball Association can be a particularly dreary place. "When I first came into the league in 1976," says Lucas, "the old pros told me: 'You'll be jolly and peppy for about...