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...second was its tenacious originality. O'Keeffe was as thoroughly American as Joan Miro -- whose clarity and depth of space her work sometimes distantly recalled -- was Catalan; her paintings remind those sated with cross-cultural quotation that major art is more apt to spring from deep allegiances to specific experience than from isms. She did not go to Europe until she was 65. When she saw Mont Ste.-Victoire from Cezanne's studio above Aix-en-Provence, she characteristically called it "a poor little mountain" -- which it is, in a way, compared with the landscapes that surround her Ghost Ranch...
...books, rapport with children does not come easily. His interviews feature the usual dutiful responses of youngsters to earnest adult interrogation. The long set speeches that his children give are cobbled together from fragments of speech, and Coles is honest enough to admit that the process is apt to make an interviewee sound like a miniature version of the author. In his pages, Coles- like Irish children offer much the same insight as Coles-like Eskimo children: there is good and bad in everyone, and that is the way of the world...
Faced with a script that relies heavily on the juxtaposition of real horror and slapstick humor, Molotiu has taken the easy way out by emphasizing the gags and glossing over the play's dark side. In one sense, his choice was apt, for although his cast is wonderfully comic in a self-conscious way, most of the actors here seem incapable of any real depth...
...this week--and there you have it: the total of non- musical survivors on the Great Gray Way. Why, then, does New York City seem abuzz with theatrical vitality? In large part because Off Broadway is providing a satisfying mix of star turns, ensemble work, deft new writing and apt revivals. Operating in smaller spaces, under less daunting financial pressures, off-Broadway's mostly nonprofit companies have mounted half a dozen recent shows demonstrating artistry and elan...
Aside from the fact that Rosovsky's logic doesn't account for those who opt for the five and six-year plans, it is remarkably apt...