Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beached Whale. Between the Red offensive and North Korea's seizure of the U.S.S. Pueblo, the mighty U.S. suddenly seemed as impotent as a beached whale. Even those nations that normally delight in American embarrassment refrained from crowing openly...
...important is the growing triumph of the minimal outlook. As artists are increasingly dedicated to the belief that "less is more," they are in stinctively drawn to those raw materials that least impede the eye. The clear sculpture that results is meant to afford the viewer a purely sensual delight in the infinite variety of light, its perpetual diffractions, spontaneous diffusions and prismatic permutations that can go on forever...
...ANNIHILATION," announces the latest Lampoon, "is the intriguing game of intercontinental devastation designed to delight both adults and children." Any adult or child who manages to survive the 36-page assault is more likely to be left devastated than delighted. The Lampoon attempts to obliterate war with more bombs than are necessary, and is thereby guilty of the kind of overkill it hopes to lampoon. The Overkill Number is overworked, overwritten, overwrought...
Twelfth Night is becoming the busiest musical off Broadway. It opened (and closed) this month in the form of a sad travesty called Love and Let Love. Last week it was back as a romping delight called Your Own Thing, which does for the kids of the '60s, with their sexual hang-ups and his-and-her looks, something of what West Side Story-alias Romeo and Juliet-did for the rumbling teen-age groups of the '50s. In Your Own Thing, Shakespeare has had the services of a brilliant collaborator from Portland, Ore. Writer-Director Donald Driver...
...anything but make that one body," was a dry and witty piece done to the music of Ornette Coleman. Eight dancers jittered towards and away from each other, popped up and down, parodied square dance movements, or fulsomely collapsed on one another with deadpan faces, all to the delight of the audience. The success of the dance lav in its careful attention to tempo changes. Doubling, deliberately opposing or ignoring the beat of the music in the most impish way, the dancers looked as if they were motivated by some inner whimsy propelling the eight of them into a very...