Word: trotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jennifer M. Fung '97 and Cris Brengeo '88 followed in sixth place. The American Smooth consists of four different dances, including the waltz, fox trot and tango...
...wooden acting and a horrendous voice-over, or a really bad movie partially salvaged by charming period images and a touching plot. In either case, Martine Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel of manners gives you, if not a run for your money, at least an elegant trot...
...Windsor Castle that was ruined in a fire last year. Subtext: p.r. to make up for the behavior of her offspring and their spouses -- Di the bulimic fairy princess, fat Fergie and her toe-sucking Texan "financial adviser," Charles' ambition to become Camilla Parker-Bowles' Tampax. Will a trot through the state rooms of Buckingham Palace raise our minds from these mundane affairs...
...seems to be at her best in paintings that combine a single image with anxious focus. In the later '80s she became preoccupied with a different, atmospheric style of painting and images of dancers (including one of her aesthetic heroes, the painter Piet Mondrian, imagined solemnly doing the fox-trot with a Rothenberg-like partner). In their cold, flickering, indistinct light, one catches long-distance echoes of Impressionism and of the sequential-position photography that was once copied by the Italian Futurists. In these, as in the drawings from this period, form is extremely provisional -- the shape of a body...
...Valentine has as much to do with romance as a Mack Truck has to do with the aesthetic sensibilities of French Impressionist painters. What if Hallmark had settled on a different day to trot out its "Be Mine" cards? Just think...