Word: descent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yankee Dawg You Die" is the fourth play the Asian-American Association Players have produced. It successfully explores the anger and frustration that even second- and third-generation Americans of Asian descent often feel. Gotanda shows that there is a tremendous amount of pressure on Asian-American actors to conform to the media's stereotypes of Asians and to play only roles that are specifically written for Asian actors...
Some of the routines work much better than others. The clever depiction of Lazarus' descent into hell as a breaking news story complete with a newschopper hovering between the Kingdoms of God and Satan was clever and fun. However, another scene narrated in a stereotypical French accent was just downright irritating. When two actors impersonating Siskel and Ebert exclaim after Frenchie finishes, "That was the worst scene I've ever seen," one can't help but not in agreement. Of the more than a dozen parable skits performed, too many were difficult to follow, easily forgotten and bother-some interruptions...
...sublime opportunity for the candidate. Here he would be in the crossfire and be winning. The podium was backed by a red and blue striped and white starred banner; it was surrounded by the Secret Service. Roped in front, about 100 agitated supporters stood, patiently awaiting the descent of their savior who was to arrive some 20 minutes late on a hired...
...does he reach such a conclusion? Director Martin Scorsese does not attempt to explain, but chooses to chronicle, sometimes sympathetically, Travis's descent into violence (or, in his mind, his ascent towards justice). Whatever deeper psychological history lies in Travis's past, we never find out: as the movie's focus brings us closer and closer into his own world, we observe firsthand the wanderings of this tortured soul...
...work that runs through May 7 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, then travels to eight other American cities, there are two DeCaravas on the walls side by side and often in the same picture: the DeCarava who relishes the way light makes a sawtooth descent down a metal gate, and the DeCarava who mulls over the pleasures and predicaments of black life in America. To the question of what's personal and what's political, what's lyric and what's documentary, he offers back a teasing answer...