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Proxmire honored for sharp eye on money Taxpayers' group gives founderof Golden Fleece an award of his own
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Saying William Proxmire created "one of the most popular and
enduring icons of American politics," Taxpayers for Common Sense
presented its lifetime achievement award Tuesday to the former
Wisconsin senator for his Golden Fleece awards.
From 1975 through 1988, Proxmire ridiculed what he regarded as
"wasteful, ridiculous or ironic use of the taxpayers' money."
The taxpayers' organization said he had focused public attention
on budgetary waste in every branch of government.
"A number of the programs or projects he targeted were curtailed,
modified or canceled, helping to save American ...
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Review Spring in an old step Rambert Dance Company
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...Wells, London BALLET Rambert first turned me on to...Under their founder, Marie Rambert, they offered an endless...American inventiveness, Rambert tried extremes of abstraction...Nothing gelled. With Dame Marie gone, and star dancer...
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Back to the future? The relaunch of Rambert Dance Company.
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine
; ...Club--in 1926, by Marie Rambert, a young Polish dancer...ground in London, it was Rambert who persuaded the young...and Nijinsky. But, as Dame Marie once remarked, if the...the past, then Ballet Rambert saw itself as the Tate...
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The real Billy Elliot steps down
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...and an important choreographer having joined Rambert in 1963, three years before Dame Marie Rambert transformed it towards the area of contemporary...75th anniversary. Having been seen as Dame Marie's protg, Bruce has developed a company...
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Lifelong talent out on a limb
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday
; ...in the late 1980s, Bruce left Rambert because he thought a new broom...Scarborough - although he trained at the Rambert School in London, so his association...formidable founder of the company, Dame Marie Rambert. Improbably, his invalid father...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Pay back time for Ghost Dancer; Retirement does not necessarily mean putting your feet up at home, as ballet legend Christopher Bruce tells Philip Key.(Arts)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; ...will be a tremendous loss to the Rambert where he has been dancer, choreographer...His influence, not only with Rambert but British contemporary dance...past 40 years, including founder Dame Marie Rambert's decision to move away from...
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TV Preview;The Right Re-Creation Of 'Spring'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...of interviews with Stravinsky; Dame Marie Rambert, the Polish-born dancer who...genesis of "Sacre" rather well. Rambert speaks of Nijinsky's earlier...post-Freudian love triangle." Rambert comments that she knew about Nijinsky...
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The Arts: Great deeds cut down by little minds Dance
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Birmingham Royal Ballet Rambert Dance Company LUCY Shorrocks...accountants and bureaucrats. Dame Ninette de Valois was as...figures in the past, the Rambert Dance Company, originally formed by Dame Marie Rambert, is still looking in fine...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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On This Day.(Comment)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...1888: Birth of ballet dancer and teacher, Dame Marie Rambert. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Rambert was sent to Paris to study medicine. She took...London and changed her name from Cyvia Rambam to Marie Rambert. Three years later she opened what...
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Critics
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; Raving about Rambert Rambert Dance Company, Newcastle's Theatre...Bruce's direct involvement with Rambert. He will still produce work for the company, but Dame Marie Rambert's inspirational torch is being...
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They're back, and this time they're popular
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; DAME MARIE RAMBERT once remarked that if the Royal Ballet...National Gallery of dance, then the Rambert company was the Tate. Well, she would...only have helped. Exactly 12 months ago Rambert Dance Company rose from the rubble...
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