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...entrechats and pirouettes, but it's got loads of modern movement: the mock swordplay and bullfight maneuvers Edward engages in with the ladies; the expertly clumsy seduction that Joyce tries on Edward, with the help of a beanbag chair that drops 30 feet from the flies to the stage floor. The show has more smart laughs than most Broadway musical comedies...
...Ahead of its time" is an overused phrase, but Norman Lear's soap-opera satire, which debuted in 1976, would work on HBO today. Louise Lasser is the eponymous housewife, anesthetized by TV and horrified by the "waxy yellow buildup" on her kitchen floor. The show immerses you in a surreal, quaint-but-sordid small-town setting that makes Desperate Housewives look like Leave It to Beaver...
...July 16 at the Geffen Contemporary outpost of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. "Wack!" which was curated by Cornelia Butler, starts with a bang. It's called Abakan Red, a coarsely woven, more or less circular bolt of red cloth. Suspended from the ceiling almost to the floor, it was made in 1969 by the great Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz, an early adopter of "humble" women's crafts like weaving as high-art techniques. She also understood how abstract images could be adjusted until they hinted again at something human. So the quasi-vaginal slit that runs...
...equilateral triangle. Along each of its sides are 13 place settings--think Christ and his 12 disciples--each assigned to a significant woman from legend or history, from "the primordial goddess" to Sojourner Truth and Georgia O'Keeffe. The table rests on a triangular white ceramic-tile floor that bears the names of another 999 women painted in gold. And on the plates? Most of them carry more or less vaginal images, some merely painted on the plates, some rising in high relief. In a world that has seen The Vagina Monologues, not many people will be shocked to hear...
...Steven A. Ballmer ’77, now Microsoft’s chief executive, in their freshman year, and the two lived on the same floor in Currier House...