Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hence the special interest of the huge, rambling, scholarly show on view at London's Hayward Gallery until the end of March. Containing about 1,000 items -paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings, objects, polemics, documents-it was organized by a team headed by the distinguished English art critic David Sylvester, under the title "Dada and Surrealism Reviewed." It attempts to treat Dada and surrealism on their own terms (those of dandyism, revolt, love, dream and myth) rather than judge them by official "painterly" standards. As a result the show goes further into the labyrinth than any retrospective for years...
Though every talented film maker has the right to make a clinker now and then, Lina Wertmuller has really outdone herself in her first English-language film. This all too cutely titled comedy is not merely a failure: it's a devastating self-parody. Indeed, audiences who sit through it may well begin to wonder why they ever admired such superior Wertmuller efforts as Love and Anarchy and Seven Beauties. Or they may wonder if they stay awake...
...very artless artist can sometimes achieve freshness simply by not realizing that his material is stale. A very strong-minded one can, on a good day, banish cliches from an overused subject by sheer force of will. Ridley Scott, an English television director who had not done a full-length movie before The Duellists, clearly is strong-minded, and his film does not contain a stale moment...
...Galina Volchek, head of Moscow's Sovremennik Theater and a noted actress as well. Vance prevailed upon Volchek to restage the play in Houston, and this is the first time in U.S. theatrical history that an American audience has had an opportunity to see a Russian play in English as it appears before audiences in the Soviet Union...
...time of year especially, weather is on everyone's mind-and on everyone's tongue. It is Topic A everywhere, more apt to be chatted about than money, food, sex or even scandals. Nor is it regarded as trivial small talk-"the discourse of fools," as an English proverb has it. Indeed, it is fodder for the conversation of board chairman and bored charwoman, of young and old, of the bright, the dull, the rich and the poor. As if this basic coin of conversation needed to be gilded, the average American constantly reads about the weather...