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...distinction between highbrow and low rent are increasingly arbitrary. "What we are beginning to see now is that people on both sides are taking with equal seriousness someone like a David Byrne," notes David White, executive director of Dance Theater Workshop, a favorite showcase for avant-garde choreographers in downtown Manhattan. Nor are there firm boundaries delimiting art forms anymore. Wilson, Glass and the others collaborate often, particularly in the realm of musical theater (and, by extension, film), which has become the avant-garde art form of choice. "There has been a general move toward a real theatricality," says White...
...traditional production values. It is photographed in hues that look like a dishware party -- color by Tupperware -- and its biggest scene is a talent contest that concludes a sesquicentennial Celebration of Specialness in the mythical town of Virgil, Texas (pop. 40,000 and growing). Kind of a downtown Our Town, you might say, full of high boho spirits and jokey asides that illuminate with fondness as often as they satirize without malice. But do not doubt it for a second: True Stories is the most joyous and inventive rock movie-musical since the Beatles scrambled through Help...
...Some downtown buildings were reduced to bent and twisted steel, and officials warned other building in this city of 500,000 people might collapse later...
Volunteers were working in the downtown section to dig out victims trapped in a store when a five-story building collapsed...
...Some downtown high-rise buildings had sunk into the ground, and shards of glass were hanging from office buildings. Streets were strewn with downed power lines and broken glass...