Word: drowned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While at Harvard one must move within and beyond it. Some sort of balance would seem to be absolutely essential so as not to drown in the murky bureaucracy. For the grappling irons of post-Harvard experience do little good for a corpse of creativity left in the Charles...
...After all," he said. "does the MDC have to fill in the Charles River just because people drown there? Water is water-we need all the water we can get, and we can't just go around filling up every piece of water. Should we fill up the oceans because people drown there...
Instead, at Warhol's own insistence, the towering walls of the main gallery are hung, floor to ceiling, with Warhol's fuchsia cow wallpaper, in whose garish and assertive surface the paintings all but drown. A gesture of contempt for his past work? Not quite. This is Warhol's aesthetic of noninvolvement and repetition shoved to another extreme, to the suggestion that a hierarchy of images with a particular "masterpiece" perched on top makes no sense to him. The gross mooing of those cows in the Whitney china shop may also remind viewers of how insulated...
...hardly be matched. What went wrong was the music. Scorning Bizet, Cranko got German Composer Wolfgang Fortner to produce a dreadful, cacophonous "Bizet collage" incapable of sustaining any nuance of emotion. Worse, the score picked up a bar or two of familiar melody, only to distort it unrecognizably or drown it in a dissonant morass...
Then came the fatal blow: the New York Times review. The morning review in the Times is like a tidal wave which can either let you ride high on the crest of success or drown...