Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PERFORMANCE May 2 presented some shorter, more sketchy student works. "American Gothic" choreographed and danced by Arthur Bridgman and Eugenie Doyle doesn't quite stare at us with the starkness of Grant Wood's painting of an American couple--man holding pitch fork and woman wearing granny glasses and tight hairdo--but captures rather a younger spirit in this pas de deux of a couple, whether American or Gothic we can't tell. What the dancers retain is the constant look, that stare that the painting gives to the audience; this time the stare is primarily between the couple...
...Riva Ridge has any real challengers as a top three-year-old, they could be two colts who showed their speed too late to be entered in the Derby. One is his stablemate Upper Case, who recently trounced a bunch of Derby hopefuls in the Florida Derby and the Wood Memorial; the other is Quack, who forced two erstwhile top contenders out of the race at Churchill Downs by whipping them in the California Derby...
Charlotte Crane stroked the 'Cliffe crew, with Martha MacDaniel. Dotty Horns, and Julie Meck at seven, six, and five. The bow four included Judy Levine. Debbie Weil, Sarah Wood, and Cathy Barbash, at four, three, two, and bow respectively...
...wood-lined, spacious office at the Metropolitan Opera, Sir Rudolf Bing last week played out the last days of his 22-year regime as general manager-declining farewell-party invitations, phoning instructions to his staff, checking on arrangements in the auditorium. One flight upstairs, in a cubbyhole barely big enough for one Valkyrie maiden, General Manager-Designate Goeran Gentele of Sweden prepared to take over next September -negotiating union contracts, lining up repertory, auditioning new singers...
...distinguish between Americans and Vietnamese--meat-eating Americans have different chemicals in their perspiration--no sensors have yet been developed to distinguish between the "enemy" and the civilian population. As the head of the Defense Department's special project on the electronic battlefield admitted, "A group of wood-cutters...might look like a squad to (the sensors); you could make a mistake, I think...