Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a fulsome quality about the movie, a certain disingenuousness. Les Violons du Bal (the title translates literally as Violins at the Ball, or idiomatically-according to Drach-as Others Call the Tune) demands our sympathy with all the sanctimony of someone collecting door to door for a favorite charity. Drach grabs at the heartstrings with harpy's fingers. "Mama," says handsome little Michel, moist-eyed, "what's a Jew?" When the story threatens to go pallid, Drach drums up suspense. The episode of escape across the border could have come out of some prison-camp melodrama...
...often limping at the end of rehearsal, Nureyev is aware that tune is intruding. "The years pass quickly. I am just starting to recognize right from left, and suddenly I have a slight anxiety that it will soon be over," he told TIME Staff Writer Joan Downs. "There are warning bells. My father said you don't see men dancing after...
...years since he left Russia, Nureyev has grown rich, commanding up to $10,000 per performance. He is so famous that he cannot remember the last tune he met someone who had not heard of him. He loves the high life, is a ubiquitous guest at jet-set parties. Still, dance is never far from his thoughts. "Every book I read, every film I see, each time I go to the theater," he insists, "it is all to gather information pertinent to the dance. You have to stuff yourself...
...Ford an overall concept of American life to serve as a framework for domestic policy, as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has done for U.S. foreign policy. Said Rockefeller: "My hunch is that that is what the President is going to do, [but we haven't] had the tune to sit around and just chat or philosophize." Highlights of the interview...
Doubled Prices. The shortages are especially irksome to drillers because Washington has made domestic-oil exploration more attractive than it has been at any tune in years. Under the two-tier oil price system inaugurated in September 1973, "new" oil-production in excess of a 1972 base period-can be sold at the world price, now about $11 per bbl. That is more than double the limit of $5.25 per bbl. allowed on "old" oil produced within the base level...