Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, we strongly disagree. The weather influences our spirits, marks our academic performance and determines the fate of our relationships--only the truly committed and hyperthermic manage to keep River-Quad relationships alive during the winter. The weather provides an endless topic of conversation; it gives you something to talk about if you do not care to learn about somebody's sperm count or antidepressant abuse over lunch. Besides, the speaker, not the topic, determines whether a conversation is interesting or not. It's simply a question of finding an exciting approach; the subject matter is secondary. To prove that...
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me. Through April 9. New Repertory Theatre, 54 Lincoln St., Newton Highlands. 332-1646. The Boston premiere of the 1992-93 winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for "Best Foreign Play," relates the story of a trio of hostages awaiting their fate at the hands of unseen captors. In their struggle to survive the incarceration, these untimely heroes courageously confront their fears and form a loving bond to combat their isolation and helplessness...
...play where crows wax philosophical on a swing (garbed in beautiful masks by Lara Ho) and there's no worse fate than "hauling grease from the grease pits," we are given up to the fantastical premise that while this world's continuity is tenuous at best, word and image are nevertheless inexorably linked. The ways in which Levine and his crew convey and actualize metaphor on stage are striking and, perhaps most importantly, watchable in the extreme...
Impediments to achieving full economic self-sufficiency and the persistent difficulties of re-integrating into society produce a certain weariness of spirit. By refusing to address the root cause of the continuation and proliferation of inegalitarian outcomes, we allow the most vulnerable among us to languish in a fate which most of us would find intolerable...
...from modern art: history painting. It's as though his own sense of expatriation compelled him toward this gap, not as a witness to history but as a collector and combiner of its enigmatic fragments. Then his curiosity solidified into an obsession, as a Jew, with Jewish history, Jewish fate and intellectual character. His early models were more literary than visual-the "collage" of Eliot's The Waste Land, in particular...