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...morality play and spectacle both, the A.R.T. production well serves this idiosyncratic work; it fails only on a final count. Brecht's aesthetic of the theater allowed for no catharsis; his works end by posing the question of the world to the audience and waiting for the answer. The fault does not seem to lie with anyone in particular--Epstein, the performers, or Gary Fagin's energetic conducting but somewhere towards the end of this Seven Deadly Sins an alchemical transformation fails to take place: the dilemmas facing the characters fail to become the dilemmas facing the audience. It understands...
...turn of the century, some scientists proposed measuring the buildup of stresses along known fault lines to determine when the rock might be nearing the breaking point. More recently, they have begun to look for other signals of an impending quake, such as changes in the ability of the rock to convey sound waves, local alterations in the earth's surface tilt and magnetic field, and increases in the release from the ground of radioactive radon gas, a phenomenon associated with the fissuring of rock under pressure. Experts have even begun to take seriously reports that animals behave skittishly...
...nobody who has ever worked for a President has felt that President was treated fairly by the press." In Powell's view, the man in the White House is inevitably locked in a tumultuous, adversarial relationship with the reporters who cover him. "I don't know whose fault it is, but it's a problem that has to be looked at," he says. "It would be simple if you could say the problem is that reporters are a bunch of jerks, or don't like Southern Democrats or whatever. That is not the nature...
...major fault in the ICA exhibition was its choice of conventional means of presentation. Objects are arranged in neat, well-spaced rows. One wishes the curators had been more adventurous, more responsive to the nature of Dada. Inventive presentation strengthens the experience of art. For example, this past summer a group of New York artists organized an art show in Times Square. The unusual location reflected the radical nature of the art exhibited, which, in turn, used live performances and striking imagery to comment on the environment. In an exhibit of early twentieth-century Russian art now at the Hirschorn...
...Yankelovich suggests, the main fault of the pollsters in a volatile year was that they did not view their own findings with enough skepticism - and drive the point home much more forcefully...