Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Deposition Scene, which is the high point of the play (and was censored for political reasons until 1608), ought to be the supreme example of Richard's artistic management, the culmiation of a life-long series of shows. It is he who arranged it, he who has staged it...
The U.S. has seldom had occasion to look north to Canada for political excitement. Yet last week Americans could envy Canadians the exuberant dash of their new Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who, along with intellect and political skill, exhibits a swinger's panache, a lively style, an imaginative...
Spain showed 23 artists whose displays were chockablock with social comment. Most notable was Eduardo Sanz's walk-in Chapel for an Important Man, where altar and stained-glass windows were replaced by abstract, luxurious designs of plastic, glass, polished wood, seemingly a bitter jest at the pious pretensions...
Musically, Barlow and Heater displayed strength and sweetness without quite achieving the fervor and finesse of the best Wagnerians. They were supported only adequately by the Belgrade Philharmonic. But if the performance fell short of a complete artistic triumph, it clearly earned a special place among modern Wagner productions. It...
Peter Weiss, author of Marat/ Sade and The Investigation, is best known as one of the more strident practitioners of the theater of fact. Therefore it should come as no surprise that this novel contains little fancy; it is frankly and almost completely autobiographical. Like his plays, Exile is a...