Word: formations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INDIANS. Playwright Arthur Kopit has joined the mea culpa crew with this play that argues that Americans were once beastly to the redskins, hardly a startling bit of information. The format is that of a Buffalo Bill Wild West show alternated with somber accounts of the humiliation and decimation of the Indians, but the segments never seem to gain any harmony of mood or purpose...
...letter urges them either to cancel classes, reschedule them, or alter the format of regular sessions on these days. It also asks for volunteers to speak against the war at high schools and community gatherings...
Protests and Payoffs. With punchy headlines and a tabloid format, the paper unflaggingly alerts its 10,000 readers to each week's environmental toll -an oil spill off Casco Bay, a fish kill at Mystery Lake, a historic barn razed at the University of Maine. Much vitriol is aimed at the paper industry, a major source of water pollution in the state. The Times recently flayed a new wave of fly-by-night operators who reopen abandoned paper mills for "short-term profit and long-term pollution...
Albert seems to have brought things back together. The old format of pre-rehearsed improvisations has been dropped in favor of more spontaneous improvisations in which both locations and characters are solicited from the audience. Just from watching the group, one could tell that there was not so much anguish: the cast enjoyed what was happening, and worked as a team...
Unencumbered by the luggage of tradition, and armed with that daring and brashness that is both the American virtue and vice, Jackson Pollock and others who followed him dispensed with the easel format, spread their canvases on the floor, and poured out tangled rhythms in loops and swirls of paint. What they accomplished was the destruction of form itself. "That liberation," says Japanese Critic Ichiro Hariu, "fired the imagination of artists around the world and touched off an artistic chain reaction." Adds Chicago Professor Franz Schulze: "Whether Abstract Expressionism was successful or not is less important than that it persuaded...