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...plot clear and moving. When the stage is full for the crowd scenes, he coordinates the whole corps de ballet with incredible skill. The close-ups require the whole company to mime, and they do so convincingly. Macmillan passes the toughest test in his delicate handling of the tomb scene. Here the dying are trying to make love to the dead, potentially a macabre situation without the saving grace of the Bard's poetry...
...antic imagination has conjured up an oddball universe where time actually runs backward. There, reports Stannard in Nature, a swimmer would rise from the water to land on a diving board, a decaying apple would gradually turn unripe and then into a blossom, all life would proceed from tomb to womb...
Nobody says it's easy at this time of life. But I wonder if it isn't easier than living in the kind of tomb that too many lives are. Nobody ever reached a difficult goal by saying, "But what if . . ." Take a look at the chronicles of history and see how many "trapped" men emerged as brilliant contributors to their times after 40 years of killing unfulfillment...
...repressions would go with them. Man could then attain a golden age of sexuality-not just of the genital variety, which in itself, he believes, imposes a kind of tyranny-but of the uninhibited, innocent sexuality that, according to Freud, controls man's actions from womb to tomb...
...with it choreographically." Last week at the Vienna State Opera, Nureyev presented Tancredi, his first try at choreographing a modern ballet. No pretty picture princes, no fluttering ballerinas in cupid wings this time. He turned the old love-triangle theme into an exploration of neurosis from womb to tomb, into a balletic adventure that was, as one critic put it, "for the Jung in heart...