Word: young
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Feature Syndicate, which distributes the Peanuts comic strip created by Charles Schulz, has sued Maternity Shop Owner Bernard Poticha. Charging copyright infringement and unfair trade practices, the lawsuit demands that Poticha stop using the ad and seeks $50,000 damages. Lucy "has been consistently and continuously portrayed ... as a young, unmarried girl," says the complaint. To portray her as pregnant is "degrading and offensive ... and tends to destroy the wholesome image." The next thing you know, Dick Tracy will sell out to the mob, Daddy Warbucks will go broke, and Charlie Brown will start pitching no-hitters...
...drawings were selected to display Michelangelo's progress from young prodigy to grand old master. He was only 24 when he completed the Pietà now in St. Peter's, only 26 when he began his famed David for Florence. The sketches done at this time demonstrate his incredible instinct for monumentality, acquired, as he said, with the milk of his wet nurse, the wife of a Tuscan stonecutter...
...intimations of mortality were lightened by a series of passionate attachments to beguiling young men, chief among them Tommaso de' Cavalieri, to whom he sent one of his rare "presentation drawings." This depicts the fall...
A.B.T. has top stars (Natalia Makarova, Cynthia Gregory, Gelsey Kirkland, Anthony Dowell, Fernando Bujones and Baryshnikov, who will also dance). But its stagings of Swan Lake and Giselle show their age, and newer productions like Sleeping Beauty and Raymonda have been artistic disappointments. As the management has grown older, young dancers have been left without guidance, to develop or languish on their...
...most knowledgeable supporters is Nora Kaye, a former A.B.T. star and now a board member. "This is a natural step, but not an easy one," she says. "A.B.T. has never had a real artistic policy. Misha is intelligent, and I hope he will find young choreographers and nurture them. He will be good for the dancers, because he is not jealous in any way-and that is rare. But at first there will be trouble. He will have to sweep out the people he can't use. I think he should be courageous...