Word: bas
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...constitution, power has been divided more or less equally among playwright, actor and director. Brook has altered that drastically. He has lowered the visibility of the actor, by making him much more of a group figure, an inter-actor-the difference, as it were, between Greek sculpture and Egyptian bas-relief. Similarly, the playwright in Brook's hands has been reduced to a sort of coauthor. Brook supplies, or imposes, a coeval text of ritualistic sounds and gestures that often competes with the playwright's lines. At its worst, this method generates intensity without illumination. At its best...
...divinities." To account for them, Grosjean has had to reconstruct an obscure artistic period. His starting point was a mysterious Mediterranean "People of the Sea," who left dome-shaped temples on Corsica, Sardinia and elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Identified as "Shardanes," they appear on an 1190 B.C. bas-relief in an Egyptian temple in Medinet Habu wearing horned helmets (the Corsican menhirs have helmets with holes that may have once been filled with horns). A likely conclusion: the Shardanes built the menhirs. Scratching the Surface. Elementary but wrong, decided Grosjean. Why would the Shardanes cut up their own monuments...
Most surprising, many workers, who only a few weeks ago had been flying red flags and shouting "A bas De Gaulle!" voted Gaullist. Having won big wage increases and other with concessions, they reasoned- again with a certain logic-that De Gaulle was better prepared to defend their gains than the Communists, who, with no experience in running the country, might botch up the economy and nullify their improved status. In all, the Gaullists attracted 1,300,000 new voters to their cause...
...point to the Shailendra dynasty, which ruled Java in the 8th and 9th centuries. But there is little doubt that it required armies of laborers to lug its huge volcanic stones into place from nearby mountain slopes, and another army of artisans to carve out some three miles of bas-reliefs. What caused the massive temple to be abandoned is equally obscure, although evidence suggests it was caused by the volcanoes that form the spine of Java. For centuries, it lay buried under jungle rot and volcanic...
...resident of Connecticut since 1941, Richter winters in Switzerland, where he is currently hospitalized with pneumonia. But he still insists that he is unhappy only when he cannot work. His current style: rhythmic, wavelike white-on-white bas-reliefs, ambiguously titled Pro and Contra...