Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extremely hard and pure form produced by burning a derivative of carbon in a blend of extremely hot gases...
Sweet Piety. The three Gorkys form a triptych of commentary upon each other observed at different ages. Without being didactic, Tesich manages to touch on several things worth thinking about. He says that survival is mandatory and compromise may be its price. Only the living can change a society, never the dead. He indicates, very subtly, that perhaps Russian society can never be changed, even by revolution, since tyranny is the only tradition the Russians know, have, and trust for getting things done...
Today Hankchampion looks less aggressive than it did 15 years ago. It still transmits an enormous sense of energy; what counts is the vigor of the form, the expansive thrust of its members driving into space. But this syntax of angles, which makes his best sculptures change so compellingly and unpredictably when one walks around them, had to wait. It would be five years before Di Suvero could work regularly on this scale again. In March 1960 he was nearly killed in an elevator accident. His back and left leg were broken, and the doctors said that he would never...
...ever come across in his career. He's a loquacious narrator, and genuinely interested in his subject in the same way as say, the narrator in Lord Jim. The difference being that Dysart acts out his narrative--just as he has Alan Strang act out his psychosis through a form of psychodrama. And, instead of repeatedly saying "he's one of us" as the narrator says of the rejected Lord Jim, Dysart keeps asking himself, "why should I make this boy one of us, why not leave him in his own world?" For Dysart is the victim...
...Bedford isn't as liberal with his movements, he pauses more between lines, he seems always ill at ease as if the questions Alan's psychosis present are more immediate and perplexing. And although I still believe that Shaffer didn't give these questions about the need for some form of sustained myth in this world and the psychiatrist's role as quelcher of individuality enough development--subsumed by the immediate action--Bedford succeeds as much as possible in raising them up above the action...