Word: casuals
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Notwithstanding the laudable purposes, the fascinating theme of the program, and the enthusiasm and ability of the man who engineered it, Friday's Salute was less exciting than I had hoped. Presumably to avoid any overtones of pedantry. Thomas is quite casual in his commentary on the pieces: and the rambling result is often less than illuminating. Debussy's Jeux was the most complex work presented: and, as Pierre Boulez, who 'discovered' the work, lucidly notes. "Jeux marks the advent of a musical form which, instantly renewing itself, involves no less instantaneous mode of listening." Thomas excerpted several logical examples...
...community discussions. Last week the Public Broadcasting Service network showed an hour-long program about one such encounter. It included excerpts from Brown's Christmas play; then, in a question period, members of the audience incredulously asked the actors about the reality of such scenes as the casual murder of a convict by three other prisoners...
...strolling with Hollywood Executive Bob Evans. Kissinger's deputy, General Alexander Haig, was "on leave," and outgoing Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird was in Hawaii saying farewell to the Pacific Command. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler was on a week's vacation in California. Behind this all too casual facade was the Administration's determination that once the decision to bomb had been made, there was little to do but keep the line to Hanoi open, probing and pushing for the signal that ultimately came...
Hesse's work oscillated between fundamentalism and funk: on one hand, a reductive, seemingly casual approach to sculpture, which also lay behind the scatterings and floor pieces of artists like Richard Serra and Carl Andre (shavings, or planks, or tiles, or indeed anything except a figure on a base); on the other, the use of droopy, cracked, hanging, bandaged, sprawled, repetitive and otherwise un-ideal forms as references to the human body, its vulnerability to age and gravity, its indelicate openness. Hesse's role in providing American art with an exit from the minimalist impasse was crucial...
...next time you happen to see him. He is not as naive as he sounds. Since the capital's "downtown" consists of a few square blocks, and the rest of the island contains only four or five hotels, the visitor will almost certainly see the driver again. This casual attitude reflects a life-style that is bound to change as the Caymans undergo the boom, and probably a good deal of battering as well, involved in becoming a tax haven...