Word: armstrong
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...decompression, a Counting Crows music video streams from a computer in Seattle onto the screen in New York. It's live video, transmitted over the Internet, and even people using plain old phone lines and standard modems can have it. I thought of those first frames of Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon. The video quality was roughly the same...
...mauve and teal neo-classical base, pales in contrast with Nancy Spero's deft exploration of female power and representation in the ancient era. More disappointing, however, is the glaring exclusion of some of the most talented Boston-trained photographers such as Jack Pierson, David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe and Nan Goldin (the subject of a recent Whitney Museum retrospective), who pioneered gritty work on the body. Only Annette Lemieux, who according to label text "divides her time between New York and Boston," provides a compelling work, "Pacing," a blank canvas traversed by a gash of black footprints...
Willy Loman, Miller's famously doomed salesman, is also brought down to size a bit on the British stage. In the National's Death of a Salesman, Willy is played by Alun Armstrong (a veteran of musicals like Les Miserables as well as the original cast of Nicholas Nickleby), whose tidy little mustache, hangdog expression and Brooklyn accent anchor him firmly in the dreary everyday. Armstrong's Willy is a small man, too downtrodden even to rail with much conviction. It's an elegant production, the dominant stage image a tree in full blossom, with a broken trunk...
...drive to spread the Gospel continues into the modern era and what used to be called the radio age. By 1926, 14 years after Edwin Armstrong cranked up his first receiver, the good word was streaming from American radio stations, first shocking and then energizing what was then still a devoutly conservative country. Father Charles Coughlin, a firecracker Catholic priest who pounded a broadcast pulpit from Detroit, built a virtual congregation in just four years. For tens of millions of Depression-era believers, his Shrine of the Little Flower was a beacon of hope--until an embarrassed church pulled...
When it was all over and she was back in London, says Armstrong, she was so stimulated by the Genesis stories that she wrote a book. In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis (Knopf) is a brief survey of the tales through the prism of Armstrong's strongly held views about God's ultimate unknowability and the folly of some current denominations in second-guessing him. It joins the works of other Moyers panelists that collectively illustrate the rabbinic adage "Turn it, turn it, everything is in it." Two are new translations: Alter's (Norton) and a more selective...