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Sometimes a very interesting synthesis emerges. Melvin Edwards' small sculptures, made of scrap iron forged and welded together, have a strongly totemic flavor. They allude to the once common practice of bricolage in West African tribal art, whereby mixed scraps of junk (nails, tin, cartridge cases and so forth) were incorporated into carved masks and figures. Junk sculpture has also been a Western convention for decades, but Edwards invests it with a rough, sinewy power, and his larger piece in the show, Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas, 1978, has an almost majestic aura of open...
...chocolate ice cream, have an urge to play cat's cradle, or cling to some childhood fetish, than Charlie Brown will appeal to you. At South House, the actors bring Charlie Schultz's comic strip to life. It's a two-hour ice cream cone with a lot of flavor...
Deflating as these anticlimaxes are, they still do not alter the achievement of what has gone before. The early scenes, which unfold in the green hills and gaslit haunts of a dusky rural mining town, are full of flavor and native humor. When the pallid, naive Loretta marries an Army veteran of 19 (Tommy Lee Jones) and moves with him to Washington State to raise a family, the couple's first ignorant encounters with sex and the outside world are conveyed with tender humor rather than condescension. When Loretta gets her first guitar and starts to pick and sing...
Table Settings is a modest but thoroughly engaging entry in this category of the lovable kooks en famille. All the action takes place around dinner tables. While the characters do relatively little eating, they sure do spill the beans. The basic ethnic unit and the flavor of the humor are New York Jewish. The play is being presented at Manhattan's off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons Theater...
...where mists and cool breezes are ideal for noble whites. Phelps also makes Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, some of which are sold under the label Le Fleuron at a sensible price (around $5.75). In another of its several microclimates, at Yountville, Phelps grows Gewurztraminer, whose sweetish, slightly musky flavor is comparable to the famed white from its ancestral vines in Alsace and Germany. Says Schug: "The grape comes first. We don't aim for a certain market. If you make fine wine, there are always people who will...