Word: waltz
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...host of the Thanksgiving Day get-together, billed as The Last Waltz, was Rock Impresario Bill Graham. He treated his $25-a-ticket patrons to a truckload of turkey and Alaskan salmon, a 38-piece waltz-playing orchestra, and decor featuring 25-ft. tall columns from the set of La Traviata carted over from the San Francisco Opera. Those folk who tend to sniff at such goings on could adjourn to the Cocteau Room, where the walls were covered with protruding noses...
...written about art," says Hughes, who also knows what it is like to have readers disagree with him. "But nicest of all is when what you write triggers people to think things through in their own terms. For me, criticism is really just the invitation to the waltz." Readers can waltz with Hughes by turning...
...prom, where the star jock (William Katt, a young actor of near Redfordian charm) has been gulled into dating Carrie in or der to set her up for her fall. He begins to respond to her unaffectedly, and Carrie is suddenly living a dream of romance long cherished. Their waltz, full of discovery and promise, is a very touching thing. It is especially poignant since the audience knows what those vicious girls are planning and suspects what havoc Carrie will unleash in response...
Soll juxtaposes incongruous images, a waltz and an hours-long fall or love-making and a corpse-like pose. She warps time and space, creates endless moments and an unidentifiable yet distinct place--I felt as if I must have seen the dance sometime before. This ability to shade time and space with felt qualities is what's meant by an intuition for choreography...
Given the differences over motivation and real guilt, what is Patty's sentence likely to be? Northwestern's Waltz speculated that Carter "would have to sentence her to time," but not to a term as harsh as, say, ten years. Zimring predicted a light sentence-or none at all. Yet he was troubled by his prediction. "What was there about the situation," he wondered, "that makes us all terribly unwilling to punish and yet creates such confidence in guilt...