Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...person. Cunningham is interested in movement itself, "the physical image, fleeting or static." Unlike Graham in "Clytemnestra" or Limon in "The Moor's Pavane," he has never dramatized a legend. Yet his dances posses strong mood, an atmosphere that defines verbal presentation, perhaps because of the ambiguity and constant change involved in any Cunningham dance...
Most of the Latin is gone from the Mass. Students at a once WASP-ish university now stuff themselves with pizza from a truck in Freedom Square. But East Cambridge residents can still count on one constant in their lives--the sidewalks beneath their feet...
...with death-defying exploits of their own. Such compulsive courting of disaster contrasts sharply with the attitudes of the average infantryman, said Dr. Bourne, probably as a result of the fact that the Special Forces soldiers had been aggressive, individualistic and self-reliant types since childhood. By surviving such constant exposure to hazard, Bourne felt, each Green Beret reconfirmed his own belief that he was invulnerable and omnipotent. - Dr. Charles Pinderhughes, a Negro psychiatrist at Boston's Veterans Administration Hospital, likened those who join the Black Power movement to adolescents fighting for independence from resistant parents. The group...
Italy's Alberto Burri, who began by charring panels of wood, now creates haunting images by scorching skeins of plastic; after all, since nature is in a state of constant metamorphosis, fire, which transmutes plastic's clarity into murk, is a legitimate artist's tool. Philip McCracken offers a long, narrow Plexiglas case, with five light bulbs lined up inside, four of them shot to bits and bullet holes piercing the case on either side of them. The piece seems to ask the question "When?" as the eye canvasses the damage already done and the mind awaits...
...Shrinker. The story beats with the low but constant pulse of loss and dislocation-qualities that are found in greater measure in The Balloon, a wistful meld of love story and art appreciation, and in The Dolt, which tells of a writer who cannot think of middles for his stories. The Dolt is also an oblique comment on the limits of conventional storytelling forms and a squint at the generation gap: the writer's son is an 8-ft.-tall hippie draped with a scrape woven out of 200 transistor radios, all turned on and tuned in to different...