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Word: wili (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broadened her movements as the act progressed into ardently flowing figures that beautifully and simply evoked her stirring feelings. After her betrayal, in the moments of madness before her death, her motions were brittle, her face grown suddenly old. The second act, in which Giselle emerged as a ghostly Wili from her tomb to dance once more with her love, gave Ulanova the opportunity to display the wonderful floating motions that sometimes seem to have her drifting soft as eiderdown before an unfelt breeze. In the presence of a performance as great as Ulanova's, perhaps the chief wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballerina Assoluta | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Editor Claude-Maxe's lofty claims with two superb records of last summer's drama, when France wobbled between chaos and revolution: General Jacques Massu hoarsely bellowing defiance from an Algerian balcony; rioters clashing on the Champs Elysees; De Gaulle solemnly telling a press conference that he wili serve, and later singing La Marseillaise in his booming, resonant voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Magazine That Talks | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Trib will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the court upholds the ruling, and Reporter Torre remains mum, she wili go to jail for ten days-and many a source for many a story that needs to be told will henceforth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Girl Who Said No | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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