Word: crystallic
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...stronger than others. You don't remember Anthony Thompson's rectangular sheet of clear plexiglass with one corner folded until you're deep in the subway. Only then does the powerful subtlety of Minimal Art attack. By contrast, the huge white canvas with three thick black lines by Curtis Crystal, a Tufts undergraduate, seems consciously aware of its importance...
...once, the same act that liberates the artist can liberate us. Curtis Crystal writes...
...meeting into the Grande Salle des Fêtes of the old Hotel Majestic on Avenue Kléber, which now serves as Paris' International Conference Center. The Grande Salle is 70 feet long, decorated with rich Gobelin tapestries showing Diana the Huntress, and dominated by three huge crystal chandeliers. The delegates assembled around a 26-foot-diameter table, almost double the size of the one used in an earlier procedural conference. The U.S. and the South Vietnamese, each placing eight representatives at the rim, sat as one delegation, in line with their claim for a two-sided conference...
...anywhere. Jimmy Shine is a transparent character; to see him once is to know him totally. What makes him a winning loser is Dustin Hoffman's bravura performance. Hoffman takes thimblefuls of humor, absurdity, poignance, honesty, desire and passion and drains them as if they were foaming crystal goblets of dramatic life...
...Jimmy Shine goes, Playwright Schisgal (Luv, The Typist, The Tiger) is very lucky to have Hoffman's ingratiating stage personality working for him. Hoffman takes thimblefuls of humor, absurdity, poignance, honesty, desire and passion and drains them as if they were foaming crystal goblets of dramatic life...