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...“Prophete” in which we did just that, the mare’s steps performing a powerful ballet guided solely by my legs and the ribbon. Again I glared at the me... ...ricks that I had taught Josephine over time. However, the remainder of the balletic freestyle dressage went well enough. I returned to the paddock t... ...e out of my reach, but I had no opportunity for dining out or attending the theatre. I sighed wistfully and returned to the carriage with my small p... ...tonight. I will send a note to your cousin, and to the fools who manage my theatre. You need a night to rest.” I could see there was no arguing wit... ... I didn’t know how to respond at first. Of course, I was now a woman of the theatre; bad enough that I had behaved scandalously in Baincthuin, but n... ...ar. You must not miss it. And now, I must return backstage to my corps de ballet. I will see you soon, my friend.” When the second act began and ... ...y favorite recipes for madeleines and cheese crisps, and had Russian tea and American coffee on offer. The ladies came to the first one in droves, a...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ...yes on someone at a bar called "Trance," around Pagoda Park, or at the movie theatre behind it and off they went to his hotel room. What was it? A str... ...s hormones were boiling to overflow he "hauled [his] ass" to Seoul. There, a theatre existed for meeting and touching men near Chongno Samga Road and ... ... get there and so he looked down at the "chito" (map) a fellow hunter at the theatre had drawn for him on the back cover of his "Expatriate In Korea" ... ... met at the zoo in front of the spider monkeys. From there they went to the ballet. At the ballet he spoke to her in Russian. She thought of it as ...

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...gs I have a Shorthand System, easily as good as the best now taught in any American Business College, that 1 can teach In twelve (12) evenings. Tui- t... ...tiff bononi And i\cgllgrt. l)offqo«il*d variety, from $I.SO up. .-. EMPIRE THEATRE .-. 'PiuiKilny, Iiliirch 5 Hichurd C^nrli-'s Own (.lomoflinn .lohn ... ...aw in Rochester, N. Y. ^ Cbe Richmond Tdc Ulcllington north /Idams. IDass. AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PLAN E. M. Moore, Mgr. W. S, Underwood Go. it PIANOS, i... ...Mr Bradman ^ THE HAHflPTON AilJaoBnt to Post Offioo European Plan, $1andUp American Plan, $2m50 to$4 Om Am Koelef, Propm Northampton, Mass. B,K Browni... ...Ten Eyck Albany Fireproof European Plan Orchestral Concerts in Grill after Theatre and during Dinner 6.30 to B.30 o'clock Excelsior Printing Co. Harva... ...In itlff boaom And negllKca. Untquailtd varlity» from $1.60 up. .-. EMPIRE THEATRE .'. 'J^ioHtlny, Martili 5 Kioliard Carlo's Own Ooniodian .Idlin li.... ...ater develops, however, that her success lies rather in the di- rectiou of ballet dancing than that of opera-singing. The shqok to the social prestige... ...coldly technical than soulful or appealing. His own' Novellette and Air de Ballet, however, were what might be termed "•catchy." and were on the whole...

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...andsome world media coverage) and kidnapping for ransom (like the kidnapping of the American Protestant Missionary Ellen Stone - quite a mysterious ... ...ere not without their attractions to Serbs and Croats alike. This is the great theatre of the absurd called the Balkans. Pavelic and the Ustash... ...d with its self-important figurehead (for instance, in September 1992). Successive American administrations funnelled money into the province and w... ... was all but ignored in these events. Rugova was not. He was often consulted by the American negotiators and treated like a head of state. The messa... ...s" - politicians who regard politics as their venue and their conduit, an extended theatre with their constituency as an audience. At the other ext... ... manipulation of symbols - not about veritable atavism. In short: Nazism was about theatre, not about life. To enjoy the spectacle (and be subsumed... ...lised manic defenses: Megalomania - our missiles are more powerful than yours, our ballet is more elegant than yours; Paranoia - the West is out t...

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...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...amed of. You will see tackling rise to such a high art, that it will surpass ballet in its pure poetic beauty. You will see foot races, tumbles. …... ...e of cleanliness? Affluent people who keep their homes spotless, go to movie theatres where they slop all of their food and drink containers onto th... ...ition of puppeteers outlasted all other Greek traditions? Why has the puppet theatre been the only ancient Greek tradition that has been handed down... ...m than a joke. They have orchestrated the unbroken preservation of puppet theatres for over 2,750 years… as a sly, secret, ironic joke. Becaus... ...vagant plumage and fancy birdlike costumes on stage, in movies, in operas, in ballet, in clubs. Human culture is obsessed with looking down upon th... ...e? What was the highest form of European culture for 100’s of years? It was ballet and opera. Singing like birds… humans trying to escape gravit...

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...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...s that such a performance would have met with universal applause on a European theatre; and it so far exceeded any attempt we had made to entertain th... ...to display the astonishingly variety of their movements. "To this grand female ballet succeeded one performed by fifteen men. Some of them were old; b... ...ek, not unlike what is sometimes practised in the comic dances on our European theatres. They formed the triple semi-circle as the preceding dancers h...

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...e shoe makers. The whole place looks as if it were the stage of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picturesque ballet. And the... ... of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picturesque ballet. And there is the cathedral to boot: scene like: all grim, and swart... ...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ...t of Faith, are very commonly seen walking in the streets. There are three theatres in the city, besides an old one now rarely opened. The most import... ...: the opera house of Genoa—is a very splendid, commodi ous, and beautiful theatre. A company of comedians were acting there, when we arrived: and soo... ...gigantic, and almost blots out an actor. They usually play a comedy, and a ballet. The comic man in the comedy I saw one summer night, is a waiter in ... ...ld be so tedious. It is the triumph of art. 46 Pictures from Italy In the ballet, an Enchanter runs away with the Bride, in the very hour of her nupt... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never...

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... raised a family, my eldest lad—I hadn’t begun to think of sons then—is an American citizen, and looking for- ward to leaving Harvard. There’s a touch... ... balcony, had a spectacular turn, like a thing witnessed from the box of a theatre. “I don’t under- stand,” he said. “What was the trouble? My mind is... ...vious experience had been devoted to the lower boxes. If this was indeed a theatre. A mighty tumult was in his ears, a thunderous roar, the shouting o... ... was said was indistinct because of the tremen- dous uproar from the great theatre. Behind the man was a girl in a silvery grey robe, whom Graham, eve... ...ty at the very beginning.” “What was his name?” “Graham.” “No, I mean—that American’s.” “Isbister.” “Isbister!” cried Graham. “Why, I don’t even know ... ...earn much in the schools nowadays. But I know all about him. He was a rich American who went from En- gland, and he left the Sleeper even more than Wa... ...a show of dancers— they have been brought from the Capri theatre.” “I hate ballets,” said Graham, shortly. “Always did. That other—. That’s not what I...

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..., looking at the fashions, or reading 4 Men’s Wives Cumberland’s “British Theatre.” The Sunday Times was her paper, for she voted the Dispatch, that ... ...ry one of the roulades, flourishes, and ornaments as she heard them at the theatres by Mrs. Humby, Mrs. Waylett, or Madame V estris. The girl had a fi... ... and, if the truth must be known, had appeared many and many a time at the theatre in Catherine Street, in minor parts first, and then in Little Pickl... ... it, depend upon it: it is a sad life, a poor pastime. Mr. Dickens, in his American book, tells of the prisoners at the silent prison, how they had or... ...orio of “Purgatorio,” which made such an immense sensa- tion, of songs and ballet-musics innumerable. He is a German by birth, and shows such an outra... ...essors conduct their academies on very opposite principles. Baroski writes ballet music; Thrum, on the contrary, says “he cannot but deplore the dange...

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...n the eighteenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumsta... ...ca thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiog nomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he h... ...dered, placidly. “Well, I guess I’ll wait and see.” He had, in speaking, the American tone. “Are you cold?” the son enquired. 4 Portrait of a Lady Th... ... and interpreter. They had breakfasted together, dined together, gone to the theatre together, supped to gether, really in a manner quite lived toget... ...fashion; and when he had obtained his admittance—it was one of the secondary theatres—looked about the large, bare, ill lighted house. An act had just... ...ry for being angry. Verdi’s music did little to comfort him, and he left the theatre and walked homeward, without knowing his way, through the tortuou... ...serves him right if you have,” said Henrietta while the curtain rose for the ballet. 250 Portrait of a Lady Isabel saw no more of her attributive vic...

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...ee months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, wh... ...e eigh- teenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstanc... ... thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiognomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he had k... ...nd interpreter. They had breakfasted together, dined together, gone to the theatre together, supped together, really in a manner quite lived together.... ...shion; and when he had obtained his admittance—it was one of the secondary theatres—looked about the large, bare, ill-lighted house. An act had just t... ... for being angry. Verdi’s music did little to comfort him, and he left the theatre and walked home- ward, without knowing his way, through the tortuou... ...rves him right if you have,” said Henrietta while the curtain rose for the ballet. Isabel saw no more of her attributive victim for the next twenty-fo...

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... in foreign lands,—for the base and capital of the columns of the Brussels theatre are of Nogent stone. Though remarkable for its beautiful sites, for... ...his mother. Brought up strictly, by Moreau’s advice, he seldom went to the theatre, and then to nothing better than the Ambigu-Comique, where his eyes... ...h due allowance, to that of Mistigris, consisted of a shabby surtout coat, American-green in color, much worn, but clean and well-brushed; a black wai... ...d I could go in your clothes; that’s a trick that has great success in our theatres,’ I told him. Well, it would take too long to tell you all the del... ... cost him nothing to oblige me. It concerns a claim I wish to press on the American government. I should be glad to obtain information about Monsieur ... ...im to my sister, where he would see a pretty sort of society!—ac- tresses, ballet-dancers, elegant young fops, spendthrifts who are wasting their fort... ...lowed her to the rue Pastourel, where he found that the future star of the ballet was the daughter of a portress. T wo weeks later, the mother and dau... ...20 he had the plea- sure of seeing Florentine dance her first “pas” in the ballet of a melodrama entitled “The Ruins of Babylon.” Florentine was then ...

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...ndid room, the picture gallery of Gaunt House, was arranged as the charade theatre. It had been so used when George III was king; and a picture of the... ...stormy excitement, and the third syllable is concluded. There was a little ballet, “Le Rossignol,” in which Montessu and Noblet used to be famous in t... ...ing his verse, of which he was a skilful writer, to the pretty airs of the ballet. It was dressed in old French costume, and little Lord Southdown now... ...h he has sold you. Innocent, by —! Y ou’re as innocent as your mother, the ballet-girl, and your husband the bully. Don’t think to frighten me as you ... ...n the pit. In the company of this gentleman they visited all the principal theatres of the metropolis; knew the names of all the actors from Drury Lan... ...their youthful friends, with West’s famous characters, on their pasteboard theatre. 69 Thackeray Rowson, the footman, who was of a generous dispositi... ...to read an authentic de- scription of vice than a truly refined English or American fe- male will permit the word breeches to be pronounced in her cha...

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...REF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE A nice phrase: “ A People’s Theatre.” But what about it? There’s no such thing in existence as a People... ...atre.” But what about it? There’s no such thing in existence as a People’s Theatre: or even on the way to existence, as far as we can tell. The name i... ...en: nay, the would-be parents aren’t married, nor yet courting. A People’s Theatre. Note the indefinite article. It isn’t The People’s Theatre, but A ... ...y? WINIFRED. Yes. (They begin to sing, dancing meanwhile, in a free little ballet- manner, a wine-dance, dancing separate and then together.) 21 DH L... ...ike gaiety. WINIFRED. I do love to dance about. I know: let us do a little ballet—four of us—oh, do! GERALD. What ballet, Winifred? WINIFRED. Any. Eva... ...RALD. She isn’t. She’s a flagrant amateur. (EVA plays; they dance a little ballet.) MR. BARLOW . Charming—charming, Miss Wrath:—will you allow me to s... ...able, work was short. Either we must close down or introduce a new system, American methods, which I dislike so extremely. Now it really became a case...

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...Philip what he saw . The ruin grew vivid with his words. He showed him the theatre of Dionysus and explained in what order the people sat, and how bey... ... his vivid fancy he seemed to see the surging throng round the pit-door of theatres, and the glitter of cheap restaurants, bars where men, half drunk,... ... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... did not know whether he was more bored or nauseated. If that was what the theatre was coming to, then it was high time the police stepped in and clos... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ... them by her garrulous oddities. Once a woman came who was a member of the ballet at a famous music-hall. She looked fifty , but gave her age as twent...

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...ed an enor- mous bunch of old trinkets, among which in 1824 he still wore “American beads,” which were very much the fashion in the year VII. In the b... ...s of movements which answered the purpose of the three knocks given at the Theatre-Francais. After binding his wife, daughter, and son-in-law to the d... ...n’s most brilliant evenings. Many of her customary guests came in from the theatres and swelled the company already assembled, among whom were several... ...ompany’s child is to the regi- 53 Balzac ment, what the figurante is to a theatre; something artless, naive, innocent, a being blinded by illusions. ... ....” Accordingly, this man of no principle, who six years earlier had kept a ballet-girl, and who now, thanks to his position, made himself a seraglio w... ...ling his cane and of flinging the sort of glance which Bixiou told him was American. He smiled to show his fine teeth; he wore no socks under his boot... ... as a rail. I saw her in the T uileries, and I much prefer Percilliee, the ballet-mistress, Castaing’s victim.” Phellion. “What has an actress to do w... ...nd China (where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that fo...

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...in- stead of shedding tears as at the fictitious tale of woe produced at a theatre, you behold in a law-court a case of real and genuine dis- tress — ... ...ned vocalists of Italy. Albert had never been able to en- dure the Italian theatres, with their orchestras from which it is im- possible to see, and t... ...isplayed his most dazzling and effective costumes each time he visited the theatres; but, alas, his elegant toilet was wholly thrown away, and one of ... ...her, she recommended Franz to take the next best, if he wished to view the ballet, and pointed to the one behind her own chair. Albert was soon deeply... ...d to his previous survey of the house and company. The curtain rose on the ballet, which was one of those excellent specimens of the Italian school, a... ...rly productions of grace, method, and elegance in which the whole corps de ballet, from the principal dancers to the humblest supernumer- ary, are all... ...y by the world, for I am not an Italian, or a Frenchman, or a Hindu, or an American, or a Spaniard — I am a cosmopolite. No country can say it saw my ...

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...ount of the gain it brought, the Italians re- ceived orders to close their theatre and to quit the realm in a month. This affair made a great noise; a... ... the arrival of the King and Queen of England. The King took them into the theatre, where 98 Saint-Simon Destouches’s opera of Isse was very well per... ...es very absent. It happened one evening that, talking with Racine upon the theatre, the King asked why comedy was so much out of fashion. Racine gave ... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h... ...ity, and of sweet recollections of his early years, his grace at fetes and ballets, his splendid gallantries, wished that the King, in imitation of th... ...hed that the King, in imitation of the deceased monarch, should dance in a ballet. It was a little too early to think of this. This plea- sure seemed ... ... were admitted simply for the purpose of adding strength and beauty to the ballet, by the grace of their faces and the el- egance of their movements, ...

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...s. If I read fiction, let it be fiction; airier than hard fact. If I see a ballet, my troop of short skirts must not go stepping like pavement policem... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s... ...es. Visibly, that man Jarniman was disposed of with ease. As in the street-theatres of crowing Punch, distance enlisted pan- tomime to do the effectiv... ...ext day at eight of the evening I shall be address- ing our meeting in the Theatre. Simeon speaks. Beaves Urmsing insists on coming, T ory though he i... ...r lips—too much a resurrection smile. There was talk of the Meeting at the theatre: Simeon Fenellan had spoken there in the cause of the deceased Mem-...

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...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...both of these feasters and their meat; he clapped his hands, and gave me a stave of one of the old, ill-omened choruses. Centuries might have come and... ... above upon a woody valley: a little French fort, now disused and deserted, over- hangs the valley and the inlet. Atuona itself, at the head of the ne... ...and it was not fitting that his guests should countenance a festival of which he disapproved. So might some strict clergyman at home ad- dress a world... ...not very often join in the performance, but stood disengaged at the back part of the stage, and looked (in Ridi, necklace, and dressed hair) for all t... ...ng and ogling, and the strange rhythmic gestures, and strange, rapturous, frenzied faces with which the best of the male dancers held us spellbound th... ...land audience roared with laughter and applause. This filled up the mea- sure for the rival company, and they forgot themselves and decency. After eac...