Word: decorative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book's only flaw. It is, after all, difficult to weave numerous interviews together in a readable fashion. One wishes, nonetheless, that Gornick devised transitions more imaginative than bulletins announcing with which ex-Communist she drank coffee and with whom she guzzled Scotch. Descriptions of living room decor also fail to enhance the reader's understanding of American Communism's nature, romantic or otherwise. And, in most instances, her discourses on her subjects' family histories are of interest only to an eager parlor Freudian...
...locus this time was Sarsfield's, a bar half a mile west of the White House that sports a Gay Nineties decor and a clientele that can range, on a given evening, from Washington office workers to White House staffers, along with political powers like House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill. As Columnist Rudy Maxa told it in a short but vivid item in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Jordan turned up one Friday evening with some friends, introduced himself to a young woman as Harvey Phillips and tried to strike up a conversation. When the woman, identified only...
...other visitors at the hotel, along with passers-by from the Prudential Center next door, looked on the cavorting fans with a mixture of puzzlement and rancor. On Friday night, after a masquerade ball with disco decor, the fans--dressed up as characters from "Star Trek," "Star Wars," and their own imaginations--wandered about the hotel. They made a nice contrast with the other guests at the Sheraton, there for a Kiwanis Club convention...
...equivalence of all movement within a dance suggests another Cunningham principle, that any movement can follow any other movement. Cause and effect, "logical" progression, become irrelevant, here, as in the arbitrary simultaneity of dance, music, and decor, the processes of art overlap the experience of contemporary life. Cunningham explained in an interview last year...
...decor and stage props accompanying a Cunningham dance are often as inventive as the choreography. "Variations V" uses bicycles and magnetic wands, "Rainforest" fills the stage with silver helium balloons designed by Andy Warhol, and in "Tread" the dancers move behind huge electric fans blowing cool air at the audience. Cunningham's revolution in the conception of dance has been accompanied by a revolution in dance's stage environment...