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O'Brien, Tom

Morris found himself attracted to the technical aspects of the simplicity and his sinister ambiguity. presentation but totally unsatisfied by the lack of emotional "I Love You Dearly,"...

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...Implicitly it reaffirms tragedy in which the bizarre twists and turns (including too that old chestnut, the progressive view of history, which con- many in the dreaming mode) do little to mask the ultimate veniently ignores the fact that matriarchies ruled some Stone result...
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...companies of Laura Dean, Lar Lubovitch and Hannah Kahn, Each stanza of the song begins with Resto upstage in a similar but a traditionalist by conviction, starting his career with the pose and develops into a series of appropriate solos echoing the Koleda Balkan Dance Ensemble and briefly appearing in the music, but not slavishly following it...
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...The names of the secondary characters become a With each repetition, the force of Gilliam's satire is progresconfusing gibberish of Goov, Grod, Vorn, Zoug, Dorv, sively weakened, especially since the butts of his jokes behave Droog, Crug for the males, and for the females, Aba, Uka, more and more absurdly...
...It was a formal dance for ZOOMING DOWNHILL two couples who each demonstrated an elegance of gesture in CAVE BEAR & BRAZIL approaching the audience, and then equally gracefully circled back upstage walking...
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...In a romantic mood, Morris devised a duet rama in stone-age drag, plus a pinch of mysticism...
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...the frightening arrest of an innocent prole named Buttle instead The script (from John Sayles, writer-director of The Se- of a terrorist named Tuttle...
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...During the course of the duet he hero whose open-mouthed expression seemed frozen in a is restrained in contrast to her emotional abandon, though he vacuous "wow...
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...presentation but totally unsatisfied by the lack of emotional "I Love You Dearly," danced by Guillermo Resto to a effect...
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...To a great extent, they are He works with a medium-sized ensemble of fourteen dan- knowing commentaries upon dances of other times or other cers, devising solos and full company dances in addition to cultures as Morris tries one style and then another, pausing pieces for almost every other numerical grouping in between...
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...Brazil chosen to assure us, I suppose, that he carries the seeds of the reminded me not just of the tedious last half of And Now for Beach Boys...
...Retreat From Madrid" showed an ingenious use of eighteenth-century dance conventions to a Boccherini score of the same name...
...The relationship is never clearly spelled out and its nah (the mermaid in Splash), whose acting here is perhaps humor derives from the contrast of her straightforward fortunately limited to a few grunts, some hand gestures, and a 28 February 1986: 111 ' WMEN AND THE TE NVORD INE SKINS ABLE AVAILABILITY, The Problem and the Gift...
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...it is bitterly ironic that the only compelling scene family lives, on plastic surgery, on fancy restaurants, on is a rape...
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...This is all to the good, but could have been about Buttle's fate...
...This preoccupation tree-like configurations of the torso and limbs...
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...Morris is a musically sensitive choreographer, as he demon- Screen strated last December in his most recent series of programs at Dance Theater Workshop...
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...For the opening with style has led him to examine the work of the heroic song he combined vigorous marching with mock clumsy poses twenties and thirties and the decidedly anti-heroic sixties and after starting with a paper bag over his head...
...He enters by Instead, we get sloppy Southern Californians, especially one happily bounding toward her...
...Alone at first, she flees from, and returns anatomically: its Neanderthals have no sloping foreheads...
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...Here the twentieth-century from its source, Jean Auel's best seller on the transition berhythms of Stravinsky were used by the dancers, moving tween Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man, those who have vigorously in profile...
...So far, so the film simply documents that, back then, there were male good: Brazil seems an offbeat, sardonic 1984...
...with her skill, she is simply exiled...
...gadgets are both primitive and upscale: computers are hooked Hannah plays Eyla, a Cro-Magnon orphan adopted by a up to rusty typewriters...
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...Since hunting by women like Orwell's proles, live in horrid tenement flats strewn with is taboo, Eyla must be punished...
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...He costumes his works simply, colorfully, real Mark Morris to stand up and speak for himself...
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...The mistake comes to the attention caucus Seven, Lianna, and the sci-fi fantasy, The Brother of a government bureaucrat (Jonathan Pryce) whose boss (Ian from Another Planet) thus provides a loose kind of feminist Holm) is more concerned about papering over the error than anthropology...
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...he received spar and jog, dog-star surprise support when the Los Angeles film critics, after seeing the movie in private screening, voted it the best film of calling up the dead...
...the shaping of the dance was distinctly modern in sophisticaHe has sought to reconcile both impulses by extracting tion...
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...Eyla is unfortunately film involve repairmen trying to master all this afunctional abused and persecuted (sexually) by a young thug named junkheap, and getting lost in paper work almost as tangled...
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...The embarrassed studio surrendered, and released the I want your wrists tied to mine, film to raves in New York...
...Alienated from the center of the clan, she develops Officials, at the Orwellian Ministry of Information Retrieval, some peculiar skills, especially in mastering a slingshot none move like robots and wear uniform gray...
...Along the way, Gilliam mindlessly repeats the initial Age societies, even perhaps among the Neanderthals...
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...The effect was like seeing an animated read the book will have to decide...
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...where Okra was, Eyla had a boy named Durc - a homonym Gilliam is a comic who doesn't know when to stop...
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...crowd noises, "low" art pop, country and western, and As with all of the pieces presented during this season and "high" art Handel, Stravinsky, Vivaldi and the "three B's," previous ones, the viewer was repeatedly impressed with the Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, among others...
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...To what degree this ethnocentrism in the film derives women and two men in "Frisson...
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...Instead of a real clash of cultural outlooks, inserts into the screenplay with lyrical aplomb...
...The process is Scenery doesn't seem to interest him, nor does stage apparatus intriguing, entertaining, and intelligent...
...Miriam J. Johnson...
...She survives, returns, and The plot is also initially engaging...
...Miss Reed is reduced to coughing deeply to indicate religion, funerals, consumerism, bureaucracy, you-name-it...
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...But one longs for the to any great extent...
...The music selected for these explorations has rushed off with the music stand on which was placed a differbeen equally eclectic, including modernist player piano com- ent drawing to indicate the subject of each dance...
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...and they walk stooped...
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...They only to have them conclude with a polite bow facing forward at may talk in guttural language, chant some, and practice the end...
...central heating and air conditioning are roving Neanderthal clan, particularly one Iza, a medicine conducted through houses in elongated reptilian tubing that woman played by Pamela Reed, a fine actress currently on seems to tie everything in knots...
...Here we have Brazil, Climbing the Family Tree a highly acclaimed futuristic satire from Terry Gilliam, the prime animator for Monty Python television and such Python I don't know the color of your hair, spin-offs as And Now for Something Completely Different and but my flesh, heiress, Time Bandits...
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...jokes - on the twisted morality of the upper classes, on Leaving fact (and real imagination) aside, the film moves at (British) aplomb in face of inhumanity, on torturers with nice a static pace...
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...nobody's hair is acteristically turned to the audience when the lights came up, washed...
...While I was wondering because they are not believable as human beings...
...chauvinist pigs, here presented as cut-em-out and paste-em-up Midway, however, Brazil becomes boring...
...Denise Lardner Carmody and John Tully Carmody...
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...she is dying...
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...To that he offered the artistic climate which produced them...
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...Neat footwork THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR is a paleolithic Perils of and baroque gesture were smoothly combined, and the hom- Pauline...
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...It's set in a futuristic backwater, not Brazil, but a mix of England and Nazi Germany where gadgets and totalitarianism abound...
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...In the final song, seventies, as well as bedrock folk dance forms and classical "End of a Perfect Day," he clomped around disjointedly and conventions...
...characteristic movement styles from their historical contexts Morris's own solo, "The Vacant Chair," was sensitively and presenting choreographic sketches in the manner of the reflective of the three widely differing songs he chose, includoriginals, while remaining detached from the convictions of ing a setting of Joyce Kilmer's "Trees...
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...Paper $10.95 PATR~Kik(A~llN A.-JAMES HI'UIS nexauf I wvn:x PASTORAL COMPANIONSHIP, Ministry with Seriously III Persons and Their Families, Gerald J. MAR(' H. TANKNHAI'I Calhoun, S.J...
...He was a modernist by heritage, having danced in the Rumanian folk tune, was equally amusing for its ambiguity...
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