Word: artes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first scene establishes the play's mood of underlying despair and over-hanging wit. Max accuses his wife Charlotte of infidelity, disputing her claim that she has just returned from a Geneva art auction. Due to Stoppard's cunning, his ambiguous lines refer to either her new lover or her trip. "How's old Geneva then? Frank doing well?" "What?" Charlotte asks. "The Swiss Franc. Is it doing well?" They refuse to address the crisis at hand. Instead, Max digresses on apparently far-out topics which actually parallel the scene's conflict, a technique Stoppard uses and overuses later...
...opening exchange comes from a play written by Henry (Alan Thomas). Characters and relationships overlap from Stoppard's play to the plays within: Charlotte is Henry's wife and plays her on stage; Max is Henry's friend and plays Henry himself. But this fusion of life and art deadens the characters' emotions and makes them self-conscious and evasive...
...appears similar to the other houses. The house administration--based in Lehman Hall--includes co-masters, a senior tutor and surprisingly, a full complement of resident and non-resident tutors. Like the residential houses, Dudley also maintains a house committee, senior and junior common rooms, a dining hall, darkrooms, art studios and a house library...
Archaeologists in Thailand have spent years assembling thousands of stone blocks to restore the Temple of Phnom Rung, a monument of the Khmer dynasty (A.D. 802-1250). A key part of the temple has mysteriously turned up 10,000 miles away at Chicago's Art Institute, and the Thais are demanding it back...
...dispute took a nasty turn last month, when an anonymous letter sent to Bangkok newspapers suggested that U.S. soldiers stationed in Thailand during the Viet Nam War stole the sculpture, an allegation denied by U.S. officials. Last week a compromise seemed within reach: Art Institute officials said they are considering a proposal to hand over the carving in exchange for another Thai artifact...