Word: clutteration
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...ragged footwork and wayward arms. The star system provides Americans with standard-setting performances, but not even Chase can always find a way to make virtuosos like Makarova, Gregory and Gelsey Kirkland flourish in harmony-or even appear in the same city. At curtain time, there was the usual clutter of telegrams. One began, "Rosalynn and I." A message from Baryshnikov, who was in Paris, burbled on to his "Lushinka...
...such variety. Taken as a whole, the pictures turn out to be less about cars than about photography, its prodigality as a medium, its capacity to abstract and transform the materials of reality. The show's real subject is the camera's ability to extract from the banality and clutter of common experience a meaning and order unavailable to the casual eye. What come through most sharply in the photographs is an immediacy and potency of detail, an aura of enchanted concreteness radiating from the most ordinary places and things--the raw blue color of gravel, a shallow driveway...
Noguchi's work, in its appeal to ancient and immutable archetypes of experience projected through an extremely refined (but never precious) taste, has always possessed a bracing clarity, a power to rid the mind of its daily rubbish and replace the clutter with a strictness of feeling released by apparently simple objects. Noguchi is 75, and at present three exhibitions in Manhattan celebrate his anniversary: a show of his theater and public-space designs at the Whitney Museum, a group of "landscape tables" at the Andre Emmerich Gallery and a number of smaller stone pieces at the Pace Gallery...
Burns's office, in the basement of Gray's Hall opposite Harvard police headquarters, displays appropriate clutter. Ongoing construction in crowded Cambridge has not made life any easier for the parking office...
...pheasant and grouse on ground that crackled as you walked over it. But Dreamland remained gray; gray shadows broken and heightened by little bands of neon, when the Bells of the past spoke to Thomas Scott Bell at Harvard, calling in his own mind to him above the clutter and emotion of being tremendously alone in a tone of evil desperation, as if he was their last foothold in the world beyond Dreamland, beyond the world where the Prince Emmanuel reigned supreme, and they now required something from him. Thomas Scott Bell walked in the rain of a Cambridge winter...