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  • At another point, the runaway's girlfriend -- played by dancer Sarah Tallman, who is the emotional prism of this ballet, as all the complexities of emotion in the movement can only exist in the context of her power -- works her way toward a reckoning.

    Michael Henry: Men and Women, Ballet, and the Shock of Recognition Michael Henry 2011

  • At another point, the runaway's girlfriend -- played by dancer Sarah Tallman, who is the emotional prism of this ballet, as all the complexities of emotion in the movement can only exist in the context of her power -- works her way toward a reckoning.

    Michael Henry: Men and Women, Ballet, and the Shock of Recognition Michael Henry 2011

  • At another point, the runaway's girlfriend -- played by dancer Sarah Tallman, who is the emotional prism of this ballet, as all the complexities of emotion in the movement can only exist in the context of her power -- works her way toward a reckoning.

    Michael Henry: Men and Women, Ballet, and the Shock of Recognition Michael Henry 2011

  • At another point, the runaway's girlfriend -- played by dancer Sarah Tallman, who is the emotional prism of this ballet, as all the complexities of emotion in the movement can only exist in the context of her power -- works her way toward a reckoning.

    Michael Henry: Men and Women, Ballet, and the Shock of Recognition Michael Henry 2011

  • "Kafka on the Shore" 2005 loosely bundles together an "X-Files"-inspired UFO sighting, a brain-damaged man with powers of precognition and even a Victorian-era ghost story in the service of a 15-year-old runaway's Oedipal drama.

    Rebel Ascendant Sam Sacks 2011

  • At another point, the runaway's girlfriend -- played by dancer Sarah Tallman, who is the emotional prism of this ballet, as all the complexities of emotion in the movement can only exist in the context of her power -- works her way toward a reckoning.

    Michael Henry: Men and Women, Ballet, and the Shock of Recognition Michael Henry 2011

  • Maugham was the rare soul who knew both cosmopolitan society and the runaway's life — and how the latter could somehow complete the trajectory of the former.

    The Road Into the Open Pico Iyer 2010

  • The telltale signs of a runaway's street life were too familiar: bus station soap, other people's sandwiches, unwashed hair, slept-in clothes, no purse, mouth cleaned with chewing gum instead of toothpaste.

    Hate Pinckney, Darryl 2003

  • Nor was this the end of our runaway's good fortune.

    Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

  • Fer missionaries to the Creeks an 'runaway's air viewed

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

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