Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Drawing on public and private collections all over America, but especially in New York, the curators of this show have done a wonderful job of bringing all this, and more, together. At last one can see, in full detail, how the mass- produced, democratic nature of American machine-based design gave it a quite different flavor from French art deco, which was less a response to the myth of modernity than a continuation, by souped-up means, of the high luxury tradition of ebeniste furniture. The work of painters and sculptors was far less important to this process than that...
...primitive nature of the new design has a strong "Flintstone motif," said Aaron D. Edison...
Though enthusiasm for the room's decor runs high some, like Committee Co-Chairman John F. Tomlinson '87, felt the artistic design was a waste of time and money...
...housing tract was uniform--the houses were all slight variations on the same design and the plots and lawns similar. Ten minutes and I was lost...
Director Weir has done a fine job of dealing with the multiple demands of the play. With great wisdom, he has been extremely faithful to both the words and the ingenious stage directions of Shaffer's script. Furthermore, the costumes and set-design are convincing and even the taped musical excerpts are only slightly disorienting. All in all, a night with Amadeus is a night full of delights, ironic and otherwise...