Word: timelessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embrace the gaseous platitudes of revolution or bury themselves in popular, native tradition. Chinese ballet, for instance, was hobbled when authorities decided to erase any Russian influences. Folk singing and dancing seem to be much safer areas to cultivate. So is something like the Peking Opera, which relies on timeless myths, harmless fairy tales, for its plots, and prizes acrobatics and mimetic movement...
...muckraker--not in the present pejorative sense of needlessly digging out past personal scandals of celebrities, but in the sense of following the fine old tradition of the crusading journalist seeking out corruption or abuse of power wherever it may occur and exposing that evil to the timeless cure of fresh air and sunlight. His book brings out a creeping fascism: in what he sees as a slow rise in scientists' and physicians' willingness to regard human beings simply as biological mechanisms in a larger social machine, and to value the efficiency of the overall machine above the dignity...
This production is firmly rooted in the 19th century, transplanted from timeless Vienna to Vienna 1980. The selection of this time period may not have been random, although it is an ultimately undeveloped idea. Specific trends in the Vienna of that time have relevance to the themes of the play. In late 19th century Vienna, many bourgeois marriages had become business contracts of respectability, driving wives to hysteria on Freud's couch and husbands to other reclining positions. One Viennese citizen says prostitution was "the dark underground vault over which rose the gorgeous structure of middle class society with...
Though nonsense of this kind is timeless, the farce is set in Paris in 1952, and it is clear that Director Claude Berri regards The First Time, like his earlier films The Two of Us and Marry Me, Marry Me, as a roguish memoir. The mighty engines of nostalgia come into play as male viewers in their 40s, harassed by their own teen-age children and the spores of mid-life fungus, look backward with Berri. It is a rueful pleasure to watch Claude and his randy school friends stumble rubber-kneed after anything in skirts. The viewer smiles...
...their weaknesses: the choreographic banality, the ragged ensemble work, the inconsistent quality of the soloists. Beyond that, this charming and classically faithful Sleeping Beauty could have been anyone's Sleeping Beauty. The only positive statement it made about the Boston company was that the performers can bring a timeless classic off well, leaving open the question of whether New England's most important ballet ensemble has yet found an identity...