Word: creator
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wailing women, six guys in the house band, the stage a huge steel blue jukebox. Plus 32 wigs, 25 costume changes and 15 cans of Aero Lak hair spray each week. "Our wig designer spends so much time hair spraying," says Larry Gallagher, 35, the show's creator and director, "he has to wear a surgical mask." But that is the only extravagance. Beehive offers no frills, few risks -- just a sweet wallow in the bottomless pool of classic American...
Some of the marvels did draw praise from thecrowd. People gathered in front of a red "lightstick." According to its creator, Brooklineresident Bill Bell, the poleshaped device emitslight in vertical lines which read "One CrimsonMoment" when people quickly glance at it. Hundredsgathered near the device, turning their heads fromside to side in an attempt to read the words...
...been scraping away at physical reality all these centuries, and now the layer of the little left we don't understand is so fine God's face is staring right out at us." Crunch enough numbers through the right program, the visitor promises, and the purposeful hand of the Creator will emerge for all to see. Roger's response is not encouraging: "I must confess I find your whole idea aesthetically and ethically repulsive. Aesthetically because it describes a God Who lets Himself be intellectually trapped, and ethically because it eliminates faith from religion, it takes away our freedom...
...other languages. Still, Wexford and Burden are fast becoming the bane of her career. Whenever Rendell makes a public appearance, readers are apt to tell her that they could do with fewer explorations into the midnight of the mind. Says the author: "It is very difficult for the creator of a series character to realize that he is very much more real and important to readers than to oneself. I can fully understand why Conan Doyle tried so hard to kill off Sherlock Holmes." Even so, Wexford and Burden are more fully rounded than most series characters. They have lived...
Perhaps it's a rather morbid thought, but revelations of this sort are better made post-mortem. They add to the artist's integrity by consolidating his character as uninfluenced by monetary gain, they give their creator a sense of mystique and the art world a shot of magic and excitement. Just recall how thrilled we were last year when Harvard Professor of Music Christoph Wolff unearthed a heretofore unknown piece by Johann Sebastian Bach while sifting through the Yale University music archives. No thrills this time around, though, just a well-placed feeder in last September's issue...