Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PATIENCE is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's humbler operettas. It falls somewhere between the brilliant hilarity of HMS pinafore and the insipid mundaneness of the dusty Utopia Limited; it isn't set in Japan or in a mystical land. Patience unfolds somewhere in England in a town besieged by...
Tony is not halfway to the end of his adventures when he follows Miss Doubloon to her home town. Absurdities interrupt non sequiturs. Plot grows so complicated that it seems easier to tell than summarize. But De Vries is only half kidding. The fine cutting edge of his comic vision...
What they saw was an intricate, finely co-ordinated process where a 30-second segment could take several hours of filming. The directors insisted on absolute quiet--which meant, for example, that after closing down Plympton St on Monday for The Crimson scene, they ordered the Adams House construction workers...
But some couples remain tempted today by the opportunity that a wedding offers for self-expression. It is a temptation that should be resisted. The vows that couples devise are, with some exceptions, never as moving to the guests as they are to the couple. Too often the phrases, words...
Historian David McCullough, author of The Great Bridge, at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: "If you could pick the Brooklyn Bridge up and turn it over, you'd see stamped there MADE IN THE U.S.A. It was built by people who had a profound self-regard, which they...