Word: waltz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already out of control. In an effort to at least cut down the tools of the trade, New York police last month seized 45,000 crack pipes (some of them labeled I LOVE NEW YORK). But in some New York neighborhoods, crack dealers are so cocky that they waltz down the street patting children on the head and greeting store owners by their first names, "like they're running for mayor," says Sergeant Kevin Kilcullen, superintendent of the 24th Precinct narcotics division. "Sometimes they see us driving down the streets and wave to us and say, 'Hi, officer...
Some of the effects are startling. In Partisans the dancers impersonate wartime equestrian irregulars, without benefit of horses. In At the Skating Rink they gambol and glide along imaginary ice in a skaters' waltz of rare beauty. Typically, the narrative is minimal, the political content low; for the Moiseyev, the steppe's the thing. Whether miming a cavalry charge or approximating the flight of eagles in a Kalmuck ceremony, the company attacks each number with ramrod backs and bright faces, precise and impeccable...
...pioneer with 35 albums to his credit. Then there are the grandiose synthesized symphonies of Jean-Michel Jarre (Oxygene) and the film scores of Vangelis (Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner). There are the strongly defined melody and deceptive, stutter-step 5/4 rhythm of Jobson's piano waltz Disturbance in Vienna, which also turn up on his new synthesizer album Theme of Secrets. There are the down-home guitar serenades of Folk Veteran Leo Kottke. And there is Hwong's dreamy, Asian-inflected music, which in her album House of Sleeping Beauties weds such disparate instruments as the shakuhachi (a traditional...
...century Ringstrasse urban renewal, then Reagan is our reassuring figurehead Franz Josef. The Wiener Werkstatte? The firm of Swid Powell, for whom the most prominent architects design tableware. Turn-of-the-century Viennese could feel cataclysm coming -- and in retrospect, the anonymous presence of young Hitler makes that last-waltz skittishness seem almost operatically prescient. Today the moment-by-moment potential for nuclear war supplies the apocalyptic undercurrent. In both eras, the ambitions of architects and artists seem rather diminished, their work purely picturesque or else merely solipsistic. Now as then, people dress beautifully, live elegantly, party madly, and wonder...
Academically we were journeyman students. Byand large we did the work, pulsing under theguiding hands of the faculty. Will any of us everforget John Finley '28 in his waltz across thestage as he described Agamemnon, (he laterdescribed an Eliot House senior as a cross betweenAchilles and Harry Truman), pivoting as he reachedstage end and swirling the cord of his microphonein a deft...