Word: amorally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amor and Psyche is the masterpiece of Canova's "graceful" style -- and, by any standards, one of the most spectacular technical tours de force in the history of stone carving. What is so extraordinary about it is the extremes to which Canova pushed the basic fact that a carved figure group is an arrangement of stone and air. Here, the empty spaces, the holes in the white love knot of figures, are as interesting as the limbs, bodies and heads. Walk round it and you see a kind of interstitial fugue of tunnels, gaps and fissures. No photograph can give...
According to one student, at Wednesday'sscreening of Nothin' But a Man, HeadTeaching Fellow John S. Wilson said that at least95 percent of the students admitted were Afro-Amor VES concentrators. Wilson said that "very few"students from other concentrations had beenadmitted, the student added...
...respect. The surprise is Il Re Pastore, an 18th century trifle about a shepherd king who is prepared to give up the throne for his sweetheart. Director Mark Lamos uses a scene-shifting crew of children in T shirts and sneakers, who playfully push four large letters together, forming AMOR. Later, two more letters appear to create the enigmatic TRAZOM. For the happy finale, the letters are reversed. The composer, who often used the backward spelling in correspondence, would have enjoyed the joke...