Word: feastings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majestic aura of open declamation. More delicate and complex in feeling is Howardena Pindell's large, irregular patch of canvas, covered with a silvery-pink crust of paint, sequins, confetti and dye, in whose nacreous surface also appears a slow twinkling of glitter. Entitled December 31, 1980: Brazil: Feast Day lemanjá, it refers to the goddess of salt water in the Brazilian macumba cult, whose votaries send out little silver-painted boats laden with flowers, perfumed soap and mirrors as offerings (if they sink, lemanjá has accepted the prayer). Pindell has given her own offering to this...
Synopsis: In the first installment, music fans, our hero left his boyhood home in Poland to make his way as a pianistic prodigy. Life seemed a feast of caviar, sex and pampering by the fashionable names of European art and society. But precocity was not enough. He needed discipline to rise from idleness and a suicide attempt and gain "the necessary hold on my career." By 1917, when he was 30, he felt he was ready. Now on with the story...
...slug of beer. The two men cross the old newspapers in the living room to enter the kitchen. They attack the cabinets, the ice box, the cake, the ham, and stuff home a midnight feast. Light another cigarette. Look at the old headlines. Flip through an old magazine. Yawn. Suck on a cigarette. And one of them sighs, "Jesus. I wonder what the Russians are going to do? I mean, what do they really want to do? Do they want oil? Do they want the Middle East? The world...
...authentic shiver of Nazi gangsterism stalking the streets of doom. All the great numbers follow - Alabama-Song, Surabaya Johnny, Bilbao Song, Ballad of the Pimp and the Whore. In all these songs, a caustic social vision is wedded to a winningly expansive lyricism. This Cabaret is a feast for Broadway...