Word: fabrice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the German settlement rebuffs the French attack and threatens retaliation, this fragile social fabric disintegrates amid bluster, cowardice, hoarding and panic. Only one man keeps his head: a quiet, boyish geographer (Jacques Spiesser) who reveals an unsuspected flair for command. He supersedes the decent but feckless resident sergeant (Jean Carmet) and brilliantly mobilizes the local garrison...
...focuses on seven tenants in a lower class section of Trinidad whose one-room shacks open onto a common yard. They are a disparate group: a family of four, a working single woman, a young man who dreams of leaving the island, a prostitute. Their interactions provide the basic fabric of the plot, but the play is always dominated by their material circumstances--the fact that they live near the bottom of a highly stratified society, and that there are very few paths out of the world symbolized by their yard...
...move in, renovate, and change the Italian working-class character of the community, Quincy Market infects itself with its own success. Its enchanting facade hides a precarious vitality for the real dynamism of a community. Quincy Market becomes the newest synthetic expression of a society lacking a real cultural fabric--the ultimate Disneyland of opulence and boutiquite...
Percy elevates the stuff of soap opera to a medieval morality tale. The parallels between Arthurian chivalry, Southern gentility and Christian militancy are in fact a single strand in Percy's fabric. He is a severely and sincerely Christian novelist who may speak from the fictional mouth of a potential madman to acknowledge the difference between a Cassandra and a crank...
...Proun, 1919, was deeply connected to social visions of Utopia: when Tallin designed his extraordinary spiral tower as a monument of the revolulion, there was no doubt in his mind thai the appropriate language for radical politics was radical design. The energy of that period ran through the entire fabric of the Russian avantgarde, from Mayakovsky's poetry to Eisensiein's films, with their complex rhythms and shuttling montages. Revolulion provided a subject matter for unexpected artists. Who, for insiance, would have supposed that Marc Chagall, whose studio for the past 35 years has been a kitsch factory...