Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Free-form jazz tends to cluster in downtown Manhattan's SoHo. One of its angels is Rivers, who runs Studio Rivbea, a nonprofit, partially subsidized loft, complete with stage for performing, and directors' chairs and rugs for the audience...
...Rivbea sounds Rivers' own extended free-form music: "Spontaneous on-the-spot creation and improvisation." Perhaps the most vital avant-garde spawning ground of all is Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a collective that was created in 1965. It encompasses all styles from straight African rhythms to bebop to the avant-garde's specialty: grunts and wails and bizarre instrumental effects that were ignored during bebop's preoccupation with fluency and speed. A.A.C.M.'s alumni include two emerging jazz stars: Saxophonist Anthony Braxton, 33, and Pianist Muhal Richard Abrams...
That resides in her talent, perhaps un rivaled among sculptors of her generation, for creating icons of touch, for making apparent the feelings of the body through sculptural form. She is a completely erotic sculptor. Nearly everything in the flow of her forms, their smoothness, their open disjunctures, their oneiric self-sufficiency, partakes of sexual feeling. It does so without a trace of violence or condescension...
...Murder by Death, which did so nicely at the box office two summers ago. That film had the same writer, same producer, same director, even some of the same cast as Detective. Most important, the two movies share the notion that a charming pastiche of a beloved popular cultural form can turn a tidy profit in the nostalgia market. Murder aped the murderer-among-the-house-guests mystery story; The Cheap Detective jokes around with ... with ... well, the Humphrey Bogart movie...
...whose actions free the girl, but there is no conventional happy ending. Erendira and her supporting cast belong to the world of legend that Garcia Marquez Yoknapatawphaized out of the Colombian landscape in his lengthy masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970). But the short story is not a form that can adequately contain his distinctive magic which requires proliferations of exotic plots, flowering images and familia' tangles...