Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bournonville's La Sylphide, he portrayed the unhappy lover of an elusive sylph (Natalia Makarova) with something like delicacy and restraint. In Anton Dolin's Variations for Four, he stole the show with the sheer, pantherish abandon of his movements. As the young seducer in Antony Tudor's Pillar of Fire, he was appropriately ardent. Last week, in Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose, he was a little too effeminate as the Spirit of the Rose (not helped by a lurid pink, rose-petaled body stocking) but danced with lyrical grace...
...human ailments, none is more common or causes more consternation than the headache. An anonymous Sumerian poet wrote about his blinding pain 3,000 years before Christ. England's "Bloody Mary" Tudor went to her coronation with a splitter. Ulysses S. Grant suffered so severely that he took to his bed on the eve of Appomattox, only to have his pain vanish when he received word that Robert E. Lee was ready to discuss surrender. Thomas Jefferson, who suffered from severe periodic headaches, tried philosophically to ignore them...
...beautiful settings and colorful pageantry, it provides "posh escapism," as Glenda Jackson calls it. "People," she says, "like going back to black-and-white days when people lived their lives by absolute standards." Producers in turn like what audiences like, and they have been quick to jump on the Tudor bandwagon. Vivat, after all, was a hit in London two seasons...
...gave her subjects leadership that was usually wise, often glorious, and always loving. "We loved her," one of her stalwarts said after her death, "for she said she did love us." Unlike Mary, Elizabeth was in charge from the moment she heard of the death of her sister Mary Tudor. "Little man, little man," she told an adviser who presumed to direct her, "the word 'must' is not to be used to princes...
...Hackman? The decent, gentle fellow in Father or the raw, aggressive one in Connection? Answer: A little of both. Hackman retains much of the flavor of his small-town upbringing in Danville, Ill. Away from the set he spends most of his time lazing with his family in his Tudor-style home in the San Fernando Valley. At the same time, he has "an affinity for certain dangers." These used to include motorcycle and auto racing (he did about half of his own stunt driving in Connection), but now are limited mostly to flying rented planes...