Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work is a piece in three movements," he says. "I was using the chance operations and dealing with durations. There are no sounds except those of the audience and the environment...
...actors in this otherwise undistinguished cast give truly outstanding peformances. Among these is Kristi Trostel, who plays Julia Shuttlethwaite. She plays the role of the obnoxious busybody to the hilt. Her hand gestures, her diction and her stage presence are all fantastic. Her performance is terrific except for one minor detail. It seems that a woman of Julia's social standing would not constantly let her stockings sag around her ankles...
...composer of such works as "4:33," in which no sound is heard except the environment where the piece is "played," and others works of "chance," in which he tosses coins to determine how the melody will progress, the native Californian has been seen as an innovator in today's occasionally stagnant art world, and one critic has labeled him the "apostle of indeterminacy in music...
...except for the gruff, grandfather-like pleas of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop to encourage "safe sex" and AIDS education in the schools, the politicians and government officials have been almost universally silent...
...think that what you do now, having got out of politics, and in some ways not having been involved in this struggle except from the sidelines with these proposals, and instead having become an investment banker, is the best way you could be helping the economy...