Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul Taylor Dance Company, 18 strong these days, is now presenting a repertory in New York City that demonstrates the vast resources of this protean figure. Soon two young dancers, David Parsons and Douglas Wright, will snip their puppet strings and try to become the Paul Taylors of the '90s. They had better read this book, not only for a preview of the pitfalls ahead, but also for an insight into the nonartistic qualities that just might come in handy: guts, humor and, above all, stamina...
...dozen Harvard students who trekked to Washington on a cold, gray autumn weekend to protest U.S. intervention in Central America. There were about 30,000 of us at the demonstration, which to my inexperienced eyes seemed to be an endless crowd. But when we reached the Ellipse, the vast open spaces of the Mall made our numbers seem meager...
...smuggler and chatty amoralist; Maria Conchita Alonso as the woman they both love; and a wild bunch from the CIA or somewhere. Their task is to supply the movie with a little mystery and a lot of obscurantist firepower, enough to drown out conventional logic's objections to a vast silliness...
...MANY PEOPLE, CLASSICAL MUSIC is an enigma, a vast world of high-sounding ideals and mystifying terminology. Because it is perceived as a bastion of snobbery and because it is complicated, classical music has a limited audience. As the works of many contemporary composers are inaccessible, and since orchestras incessantly perform the same repertoire, classical music has in recent decades stagnated into glorifying the past...
...riches. "We have all the elements of the periodic table, and we have them in industrial quantities," declared German Pavlov, curator of the Magadan geological museum. The most important of those, by far, is gold. Magadan is thought to contain the major part of the Soviet Union's vast gold reserves, although Magadanians are extremely coy in discussing the subject. Nikolai Selyutin, director of the Karamken gold mine, artfully dodged all questions...