Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Dartmouth was showing itself to be a serious Ivy contender this weekend, at Harvard's expense, the biggest news from around the league Saturday was that Yale really is bad this year and Brown is a dark horse worth watching...
...Office is a zesty example of preserving an urban landmark in a fashion that not only revitalizes an area but pays its own way. Although it opened just last month, the center is already attracting crowds of office workers at noon, tourists throughout the day and curious suburbanites after dark. The project heralds even more. Once, regulations made it difficult for profitmaking vendors to sell so much as a candy bar on Government property. But in 1976 the Public Buildings Cooperative Use Act was passed to encourage commercial activities within public buildings. Now, for the first time on a major...
...company in the U.S. to subtitle a live opera performance. For the experiment, General Director Sills chose Jules Massenet's Cendrillon, a rarely performed, exquisitely frothy turn-of-the-century version of the Cinderella tale. The English subtitles, selectively translated from the French libretto, were projected on a dark, 6-ft. by 47-ft. screen unobtrusively suspended below the theater's proscenium arch. Members of the audience could either ignore the running titles or read along as the action unfolded onstage...
...famous phrase about describing not the object itself but the effect it produces. To speak of "Motherwell black" or "Motherwell blue" is not to identify a particular hue-there are many blacks in his work and a near infinite range of blues, from creamy cerulean to wine-dark-but rather to evoke the way these colors work, as stable characters in a plot of sensation...
...poetic irrationality of Ernst. But its play between form and meaning is no accident. The "found" element in Unglueckliche Liebe (Unhappy Love), 1974, is a fragment of sheet music whose words apostrophize the miseries of passion: "Begone, begone, ye children of Melancholy!" But set on its dark ground, with a rectangle of slaty blue and a marvelous, soaring shape of white paper-Mallarme's swan, making a personal appearance-its stilted sentiment turns into a concise image of sorrow and relief...