Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MUSICALLY, THE ADVENTURES are rather ordinary, deviating little from the standard pop fare. They do, however, manage to set themselves apart slightly from the mainstream with a pervading chimey guitar and vocal harmony throughout. The problem is that a distinctive style fails to carry through the entire album with much force, and their limited experimentation fails to stumble randomly upon Goldilocks' golden mean...
...drug addict with the gash on his cheek, skulks in and out of these lights like an actor on a stage. He pauses at various clusters of men his age, hangs out for a while, then moves along. Everywhere there are huddles of such men, standing together and apart at once, their bodies angled away from one another while they remain close. From a shop window piled high with big box radios, Carly Simon's voice sweeps into Fifth Avenue singing That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be. At the south end of the avenue, beyond...
...handful of men and women who have succeeded for more than a few seasons in the total-risk business of high fashion are a caste apart. Surely the most richly rewarded artisans in the world, they are natural celebrities and dictators of taste and fads. Rare indeed is the designer who is not surefire copy for the press. So it comes as something of a surprise that Caroline Rennolds Milbank's Couture fills a real need. Very little of substance has been written about couturiers. Most of the best commentary on their work is squirreled away in novels: Proust...
...purifying force. Today's long- awaited striving for improvement in life gives us confidence that it will become standard behavior for citizens to speak out. We writers will not be worth a cent if we merely record and extol the public transformations that are taking place apart from us." While alluding to the strict controls on Soviet artists, the poet never once used the word censorship...
Earlier Serban opera productions, notably a misbegotten Turandot for London's Royal Opera House, have been willful. But in The Juniper Tree he has had the good sense to emulate the haunting imagery and striking tableaux that are Wilson's hallmarks. The tree, whose branches agonizingly split apart as the father dines lustily on his unholy supper, is pure Wilson; so is the unexpected apparition of the first wife, aboard what appears to be a rhinoceros, as the guilty stepmother's conscience afflicts...