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...with the viewpoint that all of our lives are performances. In one poem about a day on the road, she writes: “Costumes that one irons, hangs up on hangers. / Scenery one dismantles and hacks up with an axe. / Mirrors without reflections. / There are actors. Entrances, exits. / Curtain calls and cats.” In Étienne’s world, real life blends seamlessly with the stage; there’s no differentiation between art and life.Despite losing certain nuances in translation (the French title of the first section...
...premieres as well as an excerpt from Martha Graham’s classic “Chronicle,” masterfully communicated a lasting artistic message this past Friday. “Braid,” the absorbing brainchild of Conservatory faculty member Daniel McCusker, opened the night. The curtain parted to reveal a dimly lit stage dotted with dancers in an array of form-fitting shades, from subdued violet to loud magenta hues. First swaying in unison to composer Guy Klucevsek’s quirky, contemporary take on Victorian parlor music, the dancers soon moved into standard dance formations...
Cold War. Now that we seem to be at odds with Russia again, it might be worth checking out the design show Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970 at London's V&A Museum. The exhibit features architecture, film and pop culture on both sides of the Iron Curtain. From Sputnik and the first images from space to Stanley Kubrick films, paintings by Rauchenger and renderings of Buckminster Fuller's 1962 plans for a geodesic Dome over Manhattan, the pieces all work together to present a snapshot of the Cold War era. Through Jan. 11. Cromwell Road, London...
...curtain falls on the Bush Administration, one set piece of the Administration's policy on torture has finally been ushered offstage. The Bybee Memo, a 2002 opinion authored by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, was brushed aside last week by a federal judge overseeing the nation's first-ever criminal trial of an American accused of torture abroad. The public defenders representing torture suspect Chucky Taylor, a U.S. citizen and the son of former Liberian military strongman Charles Taylor, submitted it for consideration as part of potential jury instructions. But Federal Judge Cecilia Altonaga rejected the terms...
...first companies to sell lever-voting technology created a national ad campaign in 1959 called "Behind the Freedom Curtain." "You will register and count your own vote!" The ad proclaimed."Mechanical counters cannot get tired, cannot get cranky, cannot forget!" Evidently, the lever technology needed such aggressive commercials - fifteen states that had adopted the device since its mass production in 1892 had returned them by 1929, calling them too complicated, too expensive and too difficult to keep in working order. In the early 1960s, University of California at Berkley professor Joseph Harris suggested applying to ballots the punch-card method...