Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both plays, William Larsen is capable as the weakest of the triumvirs, Lepidus, and his tippling aboard Pompey's ship is amusing. Lee Richardson's Enobarbus is strangely disengaged from its context, and his voice is not musical enough for what are some of the most gorgeous passages ever penned. Michael Levin's Pompey, Steve Karp's Menas. Joseph Maher's Agrippa, and Joseph Lambie's Eros are among those who need more vocal guidance. Peter Thompson scores points as the once-bitten-talee shy Messenger, and Rosalind Harris is properly sweet as Octavia...
...that first arouses our attention. In Psycho, the treatment of such topics as transvestitism and necrophilia were at the same time so clinical in content and so horrific in presentation as to make voyeurs of us all. In Frenzy, the thrills aren't everything: they are part of a context which breeds frustration and then violence...
...about the myopia of the art world. For decades, hot-rodders in California have been chopping and chroming cars into peachy-candy Baroque monsters; these are not officially held to be art because they are made by grease monkeys, not artists. The difference is merely one of classification and context: if it's in the Whitney...
...simply could not make a joke like that today and expect a laugh. Humor, like so much else, has been overwhelmed by events. A witticism has its moments; a context, a gesture, a silence present themselves and move on. So it is not too disappointing to find that many of Kaufman's best lines have gone flat, despite Howard Teichmann's efforts to freshen them. In 1952 Teichmann collaborated with Kaufman in the writing of one of Kaufman's last plays, The Solid Gold Cadillac. He was late in a line of distinguished collaborators who included Marc...
Another scene finds its source in an unsympathetic rendition by the Mexican historian, Vicente Pineda, of a crucifixion by Cuscat and his followers of one of their own people. But in the context of the novel, the crucifixion of Pedro's brother, Salvador, who is already a very sick man, seems a natural act of piety. And though afterwards Cuscat realizes that to the Dominicans his people dancing in frantic circles are only blasphemous drunken Indians, to him, their leader, they are "drowning people going toward a core which doesn't even have a name, certainly it is not called...