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...dialogue, in its acuity and trenchant wit. The levels of diction in the production, either through directorial or textual failings, are almost as numerous as the subplots, but it is hard to complain. The moments of lyricism in the play compensate. Chrissy wants to dance ballet and "other dances that tell a story, of which go-go is only a poor fascimile...
...GOODWILL ARTS FESTIVAL. Just as Ted Turner's Goodwill Games will bring international athletic stars to the Seattle area, this festival will gather there some of the world's most talented performing-arts groups, including the Bolshoi Ballet, Cirque du Soleil and the Grand Kabuki Theater of Japan. Through Sept...
...brilliance and cheerful cynicism, dyna-movies are the ideal art form for the MTV generation. Zapped for a decade by the lightning impulses of rock videos, inured to slaughter by campy slasher films, kids have become scarily sophisticated; they are connoisseurs of carnage. They know that in a blood ballet like Total Recall everybody gets killed but nobody gets hurt -- because the characters aren't human beings but ciphers, cyborgs, stunt people and stunted characters, no more real than the creatures vaporized in Nintendo games...
...rubles, please), a reform group in the Ukraine will fax the latest political developments to Western news agencies in Moscow. In the capital the telephone company, which six months ago charged $160 to install an overseas line, now asks foreign companies to pay $20,800. The Bolshoi and Kirov ballet troupes have licensed their names in Europe, and the British promoter who put that deal together has signed an agreement to slap the prestigious titles on soap, shoes, perfume and panty hose in the U.S. Says Peter Brightman, head of the company that okayed the contract: "Everyone in the Soviet...
Last year the U.S. Government gave the NEA $171.3 million to support theater, ballet, music, photography, painting and sculpture throughout America. Compared with the arts expenditures of other countries and with the general scale of federal outlays, this is a paltry sum. In 1989 France, with less than a fourth the population of the U.S., spent $560 million on music, theater and dance alone...