Word: aura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Children of Holocaust Survivors: "There is nothing serious enough to land us on a psychiatrist's couch, but we do walk around with part of us missing." In many survivors' homes, ominous silences and gaps in the family history created a somber approach to childhood and an aura of tragedy about adult lives. Says one survivor's daughter, who is now raising her own family in Naperville, Ill.: "My parents and other adults were always talking in hushed tones. They had a serious and fearful approach to life that was bound to affect...
...appeals to James (John Rubinstein), an accomplished therapist who is witty, idealistic and amiably self-spoofing. Sparks fly between the two as they define their personalities and their pasts. The sparks become flames as they fall in love, make love and get married. All of this has the engaging aura of balletic miming with Frelich vividly signing and Rubinstein translating the signs into words. At times, this verges perilously close to charades, but for the most part the actors make it ardent, touching and frolicsome...
...forth) were incorporated into carved masks and figures. Junk sculpture has also been a Western convention for decades, but Edwards invests it with a rough, sinewy power, and his larger piece in the show, Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas, 1978, has an almost majestic aura of open declamation. More delicate and complex in feeling is Howardena Pindell's large, irregular patch of canvas, covered with a silvery-pink crust of paint, sequins, confetti and dye, in whose nacreous surface also appears a slow twinkling of glitter. Entitled December 31, 1980: Brazil: Feast Day lemanj...
...violent civil disobedience of Thoreau, Gandhi and King has a sacred aura in this book, and it is vin dicated by its political and spiritual triumphs. But when the affluent college students of the '60s seize the revelations of the civil rights movement, the drama and courage of the protest, the transcendent irreverence of the beat generation, Viorst sees pretension; there is validity to the rancor, but will anyone...
...group of crafty sisters of charity used a barge to smuggle seven leprosy patients up river from New Orleans while telling suspicious residents of the nearby town they planned to establish an ostrich farm on the abandoned Indian Camp Plantation grounds, Carville still contains enough of a "leper colony" aura to frighten the most stoic newcomer...