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...attention to Hollywood, acting in movies (The Pelican Brief, Steel Magnolias), directing a couple (Far North) and being the husband of a Hollywood star, Jessica Lange. His new work, which opened last week off-Broadway under Shepard's own direction, seems an exercise in nostalgia for his old, avant-garde self. The plot is purposely spare, and the dialogue maddeningly elliptical, rising only to an occasional pretentious epigram: "People drifting apart -- it's worse than death...
...avant-garde mannerisms, Borderliners seems shackled to the time it records, the early 1970s, when anarchy and madness were heralded as liberating and the only crazy people were the ones running things. It would take a better novel to make that case...
...this is something of a triumph for someone who, just two decades ago, viewed composition from the other side of the musical fence. As a critic for the New Statesman and the Spectator, Nyman was a trenchant observer of the avant-garde (in 1968 he coined the term minimal music to describe the emerging Minimalist movement) and in 1974 brilliantly surveyed the field in his book...
...Christo, avant-garde artist given to wrapping monuments in nylon: "Unable to answer your question" (but sends a resume...
...growing popularity, Nyman yearns for greater respectability in his homeland, where his film-music origins are still dismissed by practitioners of an academic avant-garde who are even more provincial, unlistenable and irrelevant than their counterparts in the U.S. "England has always been far less culturally democratic than America, and I was looked down on," he observes with some asperity. "They didn't listen to whether what I was producing was conventional pap or contemporary music in its own right -- which I think...