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Twenty years or so after the rise of minimalism, and almost a decade after Composer Philip Glass and Theater Artist Robert Wilson detonated Einstein on the Beach at the Metropolitan Opera House, the answers are appearing. Last week in Cambridge, Mass., the American Repertory Theater (ART) offered the world premiere of The Juniper Tree, a collaborative opera by Glass and Composer Robert Moran, in a staging by Director Andrei Serban. The event demonstrated how pervasive minimalism's influence has become, and what promise it still holds...
MYOPIC MODERN HERO; Einstein on the beach without a paradigm; Steven Jay Gould gone off the deep end in search of the gecko and the albino gorilla--the name of this man is Mr. Palomar...
...simple, yet intriguing plot line is richly embellished with everything from irate terrorists to a put-upon canine named Einstein. As usual, the Spielberg humor is fast-paced and upbeat, whirling us into the crazy fantasy world with little effort and certainly no resistance...
...Creator is definitely a movie not meant to be. For the first ten minutes, the movie accurately portrays the strange environs of scientific research, and Peter O'Toole is marvelous as a mildly comic, Einstein-like scientist. David Ogden Stiers of MASH fame sounds good without his aristocratic air as O'Toole's ruthless rival. But then the Jeremy Leven screenplay begins its long plummet in quality of dialogue, and the less dazzling supporting cast intrudes...
...professionally ruined." In the censorship section of the Liverpool post office, J.C. Silber listens to the "majestic tolling" of church bells and is "glad to get away from it all." Understandably: Silber is a German spy who will retain his cover long enough to return home. In Berlin, Albert Einstein writes to his mother, "Only now do I begin to feel at ease. The defeat has worked wonders...