Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inspired a host of younger choreographers, most nourished in Cunningham's own company: Paul Taylor, Judith Dunn, Deborah Hay, Jack Moore, Dan Wagoner, Yvonne Rainer. In a century when painting has turned inward to explore the grounds of perception, and the "meaning" of poetry has become the relation of word to word and mind to language, Cunningham has created dance centered on nothing more than the activity of movement--and in so doing, in McDonagh's words, he "clearly demonstrated that dance was not a frustrated mate yearning to verbalization but a kinetic discipline capable of its own wordless truths...
...expect, or even desire of him, to keep pressing until something detonates, and to combine polish and technique with an edge that makes everything seem electrifyingly spontaneous. As the 85-year-old man who dreams of building the supercar that every American can own, Olivier takes the word "feisty" to new heights, and if it weren't so demeaning to see him play a variation on Granny Clampett at this stage of his career, you could enjoy the performance for its impudence. Even more brilliant are his quieter, serious moments, when this hackneyed material takes on larger dimensions. Perhaps...
...MOST ENJOYABLE part of reviewing something by Harold Robbins is seeing how many synonyms for the word "trash" you can think up without resorting to a thesaurus. Actually, the book on which the film was based wasn't even good bilge, and the screenwriters have been awfully faithful to the dull details. What keeps Robbins's readers interested in his non-characters is their sexual appetites, but the kind of graphic descriptions Robbins indulges in--those titillating, sizzling, tongue-wrapped-around-anything-that-moves scenes--are not exactly the stuff of "R" rated movies, and especially one with a cast...
Teams 11 through 17 don't stand much of a chance, but a word must be said about Yale. After getting off to such a super start under second year man Tim Taylor (The Bulldogs were 4-1-1 at one point), the Elis ran out of gas somewhere along the line. With four games left against B.U., Harvard (2), and Providence, it looks as if they'll have to save the big comeback for next year...
...forcing partners to think problems out in advance. One woman, he reports, agreed to stop smoking but became so distraught when she tried it that her fiancé broke off the engagement. In that case, Ashley concludes, the contractual promises helped terminate a shaky match. And, he notes, the written word has coercive power: "There is a tendency to live up to a written promise?or at least to make a real effort to do so?when one might shrug off an oral commitment as mere conversation, the specifics of which had long since been forgotten...