Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When not studying or working out, Ramos is likely to jog through his neighborhood at daybreak. In the gray light at the corner of Brook Avenue and East 138th Street, where he sometimes used to hang out in the winter with Popeye, Angel and Shorty, he can see up to 15 buildings that have been torched or abandoned. Despite the wreckage, according to Ramos, Brook Avenue is still the struttin'est street in The Bronx. On fine days it over flows with hip dudes, good music and fine reefer...
Some years ago, Marshall McLuhan made quite a splash among cocktail-party sophisticates by proclaiming that television was a "cool medium," whereas some other cultural forms were "hot media." In recent years, Peter Brook, a highly sophisticated director, and his Paris-based company Le Centre International de Créations Théatrales have devised modes by which theater can be turned into a cool medium, perhaps even stone-cold...
View the works on exhibit at Greenwich Village's La Mama. Device No. 1-skeletonize the text. Back in 1961, Brook announced: "I do not believe in the word much today, because it has outlived its purpose." This induces a vacuum of thought and feeling. Sounds and body actions are rushed in to fill the gap. Oriental masks and non-Western rituals are added, and de-individuate the actor. Superbly accomplished as this international troupe is, each member of it seems to be computerized by Brook's guru visions and will...
This should have been a tale of potent pa thos, but Brook's barebones staging starves The Ik of emotive power. It is a case of Less Is Not Enough...
Between tours (they play about 120 concerts a year), the trio and their families are scarcely neighbors. Pressler is based in Bloomington, Ind., where he teaches at Indiana University. Greenhouse and Cohen are both on the faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, but Greenhouse lives in Setauket, Long Island, Cohen in Manhattan. With luck, Greenhouse gets in some sailing, and Cohen plays tennis or tends his plants (he is a former member of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America). Pressler's recreation? "Playing and teaching, playing and teaching...