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...your report of my dance at the Albright-Knox Festival of the Arts in Buffalo [March 19]: I was not "stark naked." Both Miss Rainer and myself were covered completely with a thick coating of mineral oil. We did not simply "move across the stage in slow motion," but proceeded carefully in a rhythm too complicated to explain. Furthermore I have a stiff knee and am unable to do a great many steps. I think it is more important to realize that this dance was performed by a handicapped person rather than a naked...
...Stark Draper, director of the instrumentation Laboratory at M.I.T., agreed with Whipple. He compared the U.S. and the USSR to two horses running on separate tracks. They are not competing against each other and, therefore, they cannot be compared...
...Notebooks, an aria from Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, and the choreographer's taped comments (sample: "If you are taking photographs now, let us know later"), Yvonne Rainer, 30, and Robert Morris, 34, in a tight embrace, moved across stage in slow motion for eight minutes-stark naked. "I am a sculptor and like nude bodies," explains Dance Choreographer Morris. The audience took it all with a nervous laugh...
TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC. This stark and timeless historical drama by Director Robert Bresson is based on actual transcripts of Joan's heresy trial, preserved in French archives since...
...last meeting, the Faculty vigorously debated the metaphysics of knowledge. The Doty Committee had proposed replacing the present division of departments into three fields with a bipartite division, into the Humanities and the Sciences. The proposal elicited a general response of stark horror. Professors of English saw their discipline sliding into the morass of History; Government professors shuddered at their department's being torn asunder and deposited into both of the new areas...