Word: shattering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announced goal of El Fatah, the Arab terrorist organization, is to provoke Israelis into a pogrom of Arabs living in Israel and thereby shatter all Israeli hopes for peaceful coexistence in their occupied territories. Last week, in the latest of a series of bomb attacks, Arab terrorists struck for the first time in Tel Aviv and succeeded in rousing an angry Jewish response...
Polish avant-gardist. Grotowski argues that theater exists to shatter taboos that separate man from himself. The relentless iconoclasm of the age has pretty much destroyed religious, political and social taboos. According to Grotowski, only the human body retains an aura of sanctity that lends itself to exposure, shock and outrage...
...sweep of greying yellow buildings. A few once posh hotels and restaurants remain open, but the epitaphs to their elegance and cuisine are written on the walls. "Under the revolutionary offensive, this establishment belongs to the people," reads a sign in a once privately owned shop. Loudspeakers shatter the soft night air, calling the faithful to a "solidarity with North Viet Nam" rally, while just a block away at Monseigneur Restaurant (steak: $15), harassed waiters try to evoke the old days by wrapping label-less bottles of beer in napkins. Transportation is largely by bus. Gasoline rationing has virtually emptied...
Fosbury stoutly defends his style as being scientifically superior. "I've studied physics and engineering," he says, "and jumping my way, I am less likely to hit the bar with my head, arms or legs." He is, of course, more likely to shatter his spine-landing as he does, flush on his shoulder blades. Dick airily dismisses the danger, and besides, his technique is actually a matter of necessity. Using the orthodox frontwards straddle roll, the highest Fosbury can jump...
...evening were Untitled Dance by Radcliffe's Donna Brooks, Declension by Rima Wolff, Nina Adolph's Changes 1--both graduate students at Harvard, and Imagine this Dance to Harp Music from Brandeis. All these choreographers do create some very fine tableaus, especially in the last three dances. But they shatter these moments of beauty as soon as they regroup the performers. Changes 1 probably illustrates best what is wrong with the choreography. To a quite unmemorable sound collage by David Maxwell, the dancers as a tightly interwoven group walk diagonally across the stage while a film projects closeups...