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Twentieth century art has been rich in didactic rooms, in which an artist set forth to construct an exemplary environment: Lissitzky's Proun Room, Van Doesburg's project for a university hall, Schwitters' Merzbau, Kandinsky's music room, and so on. Nevelson's palace is of their company. Yet its motives are not didactic; they are closer to folk art, to the "ideal palace" made from junk by the French postman Cheval from 1879 to 1912, or the Watts Towers built by Simon Rodia in Los Angeles. Collection, repetition, unification: these are the elements...
...seen as the Englishman's version of America or as Shakespeare's testament to the belief that, starting with nothing, good people can create a new world. By diversifying the roles within the play and adding lots of mime and dance, directors Laura Shiels and Rick Engelhart hope to construct in the Adams/Quincy production of Tempest more than just another alternative to society's mistakes. On this island, they hope, a grand Christmas-time spectacle will occur. Performances begin tonight and run through Saturday, and also next weekend, in the Quincy dining hall at 8:15 p.m. Tickets...
...supermarket approach, though, is slowly giving way to a new opulence as Harrah's tries to upgrade the quality of its clientele. Each room at its recently expanded Tahoe hotel cost $100,000 to construct and contains two baths with telephones and miniature Sony TV sets. A similarly posh addition is planned eventually for Reno, where the company faces new competition next year from two large hotels now under construction, the MGM Grand and the Sahara. In still another move designed to boost income, Harrah's has begun manufacturing more $1 one-armed bandits-slot machines that take...
...pages of prestigious New York intellectual journals like Commentary. Retreating from their former New Deal left-liberalism, political scientists such as Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and social critics such as Commentary editor Norman Podheretz have nurtured and refined the social theory of "ethnic pluralism," an intellectual construct which--along with its pernicious step-child, "reverse discrimination"--they now trot out to the ideological front lines in their wide-ranging battle to halt the progressive advances of the'60s: affirmative action programs for women and minorities and increased federal spending for the poor and disadvantaged...
Originally, Makavejev was offered the chance to make a feature film with a class at Harvard. Then the money for the project fell though. Now he says he is trying to construct a work situation in class similar to the atmosphere of his film crews, and planning on a small group film. Also, he is having his 15-member class make one-minute individual films. Harvard has no established method of teaching film-making, so Makavejev can use this freedom to break new ground with this technique. He says he is very interested in the group dynamics of the class...