Word: vendetta
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...rather chilly one from Terabust; the intricate variations fell to baby ballerinas who were rarely up to their tasks. Makarova and Dowell danced Béjart's Sonata No. 5 as if blindingly fused together, down to the last sinuous contortion and arbitrary tic. The world premiere of Vendetta, created for Makarova by Choreographer Lorca Massine, gave her the chance to put on a gypsy costume and flirt and shimmy with Dowell, Bujones and Ganio, amid much running about by the corps. What was supposed to have been a crowd-pleaser proved chiefly a puzzler...
...former Ford model who founded the eponymous agency, disparages Casablancas with the observation: "The agencies were always competitive but never this low. The Fords always evidenced an ethic and created many of the good practices that benefited the models." Says Casablancas, who speaks in often unprintable terms about the vendetta: "What gets me is the permanent, ever present nastiness of Eileen Ford. She is Machiavellian and Byzantine. She is like a snake with seven heads: cut off six and she still has one left to bite...
Because of its brevity, Doctor Fischer of Geneva seems more parable than novel. Greene sometimes takes short cuts to the allegorical without first passing through the fictional. The reason for Fischer's vendetta against God and man is insufficiently anchored in credibility: his wife, now dead, betrayed him by sharing her love of classical music (which Fischer hated) with a lowly male clerk. The doctor's overresponse seems mad, while much of the novel's power stems from the likelihood that he is sane. This confusion may be irritating on the surface; it also serves the author...
...process the various cases pending against her and her son Sanjay. Still she attempted to quiet fears that her new government would strike back at those she claims have persecuted her. Calling for national reconciliation, she said: "We are not petty people. We do not think in terms of vendetta and personal vindictiveness...