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Chris: Bill, I consider it a bad idea to expose underground music to a wider audience when I am skeptical at the new audience??s willingness to accept the music as the artist intends, and when I feel that an artist would be likely to compromise their art for the sake of filthy lucre. In this example I can see the Postal Service going either way. The popularity of the first album was buoyed on the strength of “Such Great Heights,” an excellent single that condenses everything good about the Postal Service...
...reading, Bloom did not hold a question and answer session, which is unusual for a Harvard Book Store author event. In explaining his reasoning he said that in spite of his “palpable amiability,” some people have taken “the entire audience??not to mention my sad self—captive with an oration rather than a question.” He added that he would be happy to answer individual questions as he signed books, and complied with a line that stretched to the back of the church...
...chairs, and herded the audience from room to room showing them disjointed actions like a woman standing still “for ten seconds, left forearm raised, pointing to the floor” or two “performers reciting monosyllabic words.” Kaprow thought that the audience??s presence, interactions, or observations completed his pieces. From then on, a “happening” has referred to a work of performing art that requires others’ participation...
...forget the Academy Award and subsequent millions of dollars. Thankfully, we can. That these wimpy characters are both totally absurd and credible is a testament to the comic virtuosity of the writers and actors, and the lively but un-adorned direction of David Warren. The performance plays on the audience??s pre-established relationship with the real life Matt and Ben, dropping references to their past, contemporary and future lives, while managing to suspend the disbelief that comes with watching their over-the-top stage versions (not to mention their real-life “versions?...
...middle of the film when Lucas exposes the curious dialectics of rough/coarse and soft/smooth. Framed within the grand love story of the film, young Anakin Skywalker compares Natalie Portman’s skin to the harsh sand of his home planet Tattooine. Lucas puts the ball in the audience??s court as he asks: What is the nature of smoothness? Roughness...