Word: aqueous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miracle of late Braque lies in this conjuncture of the explicit and the poetic. The green surface of The Billiard Table, 1945, folding in the middle, seems to be foundering in the aqueous gray and olive planes of the room like a sinking ship. Perhaps there is a ghost of a clue in the barely visible lettering on the wall, part of a cafe sign reminding patrons of the law against public drunkenness. But between the elements of the painting there is a continuous jostling, circling and reflection, a sense of the vitality of form in every particular, that puts...
...Previous productions of this Sausalito company have included Locker Room, which took place in a high school locker room, with the audience seated atop the lockers, and Surface Tension, a water work that toured swimming pools up and down the West Coast. For the festival, Farabough has created another aqueous drama, Liquid Distance/ Timed Approach, which she has staged, so to speak, in the swimming pool of the Beverly Hills High School. Unfortunately, the chlorinated blue water is clearer than her plot, which covers everything from the sinking of the Titanic to high school pool parties. Although the ten cast...
...fete's official theme is "The World of Rivers: Fresh Water as a Source of Life," and the planners have taken ingenious advantage of the aqueous motif. The main entrance to the 84-acre site is dominated by a sculpture of the sea god Neptune grappling with a tail-flailing native alligator. Flamboyantly presiding over the faux-granite gates are a titanic pair of bare-breasted mermaids, who have stirred a surprising flap in a city sated with live mammary display, and a gigantoid pelican, the state bird (no flap...
...kept on hand are being reinforced. One of the most important steps, obviously, will be to ensure that secret documents that are supposed to be destroyed actually are destroyed. Thus, one esoteric idea under consideration is a system that would slow attackers by flooding embassy rooms with an aqueous foam laden with tear gas. Says a State Department official: "We're looking into all kinds of schemes, starting with banana peels in the parking...