Word: witness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More important, however, is that Taylor is a giant among modern dance choreographers. In embracing such epic themes as God, man and nature in one work, he is treading a perilous course, yet he manages to sustain a unifying rhythm and pace. The choreography, with its wit and quirky, perky turns, its swirling patterns and exultant leaps, is boldly original...
...interpretive artist, not a personality merchant." For a major star, he is unique in lacking idiosyncrasies, ranging without trick or mannerism or telltale signature from classical heroes to contemporary antiheroes. A gaunt six-footer, he looks like a fine-grained, graceful Abe Lincoln. His expression glows with open intelligence, wit, humanity. From two foxholes lurk eyes that can flick a sense of danger to the farthest balcony. A critic wrote that he has the face of a fallen angel...
Museum can be thoroughly enjoyed for belly laughs, but Novelist Lodge, 31, really belongs at a loftier level than that. He has an assured literary style that is wasted on slapstick, and a natural wit that lacks only a better sense of direction...
...home!"-not to Romans and their "S.P.Q.R." but to foreign troops with "U.S." on their helmets. Le Monde Columnist Robert Escarpit explains the Astérix cult this way: "These invincible Gauls, barricaded in their little corner of the universe, like us French in France today, have grandeur, generosity, wit and courage...
...constraining all his subjects under pain of death to swear fealty to the King as head of the church as well as the state. Sir Thomas, unable in all conscience to take the oath, nevertheless decides he is "not the stuff of which martyrs are made." Being the greatest wit of the age, he decides "to serve God wittily, in the tangle of the mind." Being the sharpest lawyer in the kingdom, he darts through a loophole in Henry's law. "I will not take the oath," he announces gravely to Thomas Cromwell (Leo Mc-Kern), the leader...