Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American Canvas, as the work is titled, is based on "a nationwide initiative of regional and community forums" that were conducted in cities across the country last year; participants included many arts administrators and community activists and surprisingly few actual artists. The resulting study is every bit as morbidly fascinating, as unintentionally comic and, in the end, as dreary and depressing as a fan of government reports could hope. Attempting nothing less than to "measure the health of American art," it first came to light when leaked to the New York Times, which ran a front-page story highlighting...
...work done at the accident scene, in the ambulance and at the hospital of the highest quality, as it should always be? Were the best doctors made available to treat the type of injuries Diana suffered? Although the actual crash was important, the media are concentrating on it too heavily. The medical facts deserve a solid investigation. LELAND L. ("TED") COGDELL JR. Alexandria...
...quite restrained, consisting mainly of several sparing patches of blood and one remarkably fake-looking severed hand. Perhaps as an appeal to the spirit of Halloween, a lot of the physical pain the various characters inflict on each other takes the form of mystical gestures of conjuration rather than actual bloodspilling...
...transplanted into Titus' bath, accentuating the play's obsession with human flesh. Indeed, as if to further this alternative method of presenting this obsession, nearly all of the principal characters at some point or other are at least partially undressed. However, music, sound and lighting, much more than the actual set, are used to evoke an eerie, faintly unearthly atmosphere, and do so effectively. This is more than one can say for the dance sequences--stylized choreography notwithstanding, they end up feeling somewhat gimmicky...
...actual decision to reintroduce grapes was made last May, but due to seasonal availability, grapes will not return to dining halls until November 9 at brunch...