Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were set to later, drier Webern-music that chattered, squeaked, moaned and repeatedly died away in cacophonous little cries. Dance matched music with some wonderfully inventive and often funny sequences of movement. In one pas de deux (set to Five Pieces, Opus 10), Balanchine has a man and a woman approach each other time and again in an elaborate effort to embrace, only to have a final miscalculation leaving them clutching at air. Vastly different in their approaches, both Balanchine and Graham were remarkably successful at illuminating Webern's sparse, mostly atonal scores-perhaps the world's unlikeliest...
Crazy He Calls Me (Dakota Staton; Capitol LP). Singer Staton is an ample woman with a more than ample voice and a gaudy spectrum of moods. She can be broadly comic in How High the Moon, exuberant in No Moon at All, anguished in Morning, Noon or Night. In Can't Live Without Him Any More she hits the listener with a sound like an unmuted brass section. What makes her album a delight, though, is its sheer exuberance, suggesting that nobody is getting more kicks than Dakota herself...
...short on nourishment for the soul and solutions to community problems. Taboos often left an Eskimo physically as well as spiritually starved; for example, certain parts of an animal were forbidden to be eaten if a man had recently died in the community, other parts were forbidden if a woman had died, and frequently, when both a man and a woman had died, everyone went hungry...
...Mistress (Japanese). A simple and moving restatement of a timeless truth: that even for a "fallen woman," the soul is free...
...Woman! (CBS, 3-4 p.m.). Claudette Colbert referees a new series "devoted to exploring matters of greatest interest to the women of America." First matter of greatest interest: "Do they marry too young...