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...cool hills of Petionville and control 40% of the economy are preparing for nothing short of apocalypse. "They look at Aristide and what do they see?" says a businessman. "They see their cook, their gardener, their maid." The rich have stepped up private patrols of their flower-fringed villas and sleep with pistols beneath their beds. "Everybody is afraid," says Raymond Roy, president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "Aristide's people can destroy everything in three hours...
...20th-century works in their own gallery and others interspersed in the other rooms?). In the first four galleries, the placement of the paintings and their labels only suggests a dialogue between works of different periods. A more effective and meaningful approach would be to hang an O'Keeffe flower, for example, next to a 17th-century rendering of a flower and challenge the viewer to think about how the two canvases present the same subject in different ways. Instead, older and more contemporary works are hung in separate clusters, across the room from each other...
...pieces are similar in size and palette. (The Japanese version of the show, according to the catalogue, didn't include the contemporary works, and, without them, must have been painfully dull.) Contemporary artists grapple with mass-produced products as subjects, trying to endow them with the individuality that every flower or piece of fruit naturally possesses. Barnet Reubenstein's "Oyster Pails" of 1978-79 shows stacks of hundreds of Chinese take-out cartons; though in reality they are identical, Reubenstein uses variations of tone and shading to make each one unique...
McHale said a tentative name may be Fiore di Calabria, Italian for Flower of Calabria...
...structually confusing as musicals. The American Reportory Theatre has managed to convert the house into a two-hour Jewish cultural festival where audience participation is not always discouraged Food and oversized breasts constitute the bulk of jokes slipping in and out of the black gowns, car curls and flowing flower print dresses. The band regularly moves from pit to stage to take part in the theatrics just like the cabaret sister it aspires to be deep down inside. Rythmic clapping and footstomping will not seem out of place. But, contrary to the clandestine concern of one woman behind me, there...