Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...participate." In October, soon after residents learned of the planned annihilation, Lutheran pastor Karen Parsons hosted an art day at her church, which sits in the heart of the infested area. About 70 adults and children made sketches and paintings of the tree-lined neighborhood as a form of catharsis. The pictures may be used in greeting cards to raise money for tree replanting in the spring--this time with varieties the beetle is not known to infest...
...Slack). The three groups of people--the WASPs in frilly white, of course; the Harlem natives in deep burgundies and blues; and the Jewish immigrants in black--face off against each other in a simple yet intensely symbolic dance routine as they sing about a mysterious and mesmerizing new form of music that is "Giving the nation a new syncopation," called--what else?--ragtime...
...only comic relief from this overload of testosterone comes in the form of Van Der Beek's little brother, whose sissy religious inclinations threaten the very masculinity of their overbearing father. He literally has a cross to bear, bows with regal reverence to the barbecue grill and even at one point starts a cult with other neighborhood kids. How sweet...
...Jerusalem Disease was neither wonderfully performed nor exceptionally well-written; instead it was a very watcheable soap-opera: "Dawson's Creek" featuring skinny guys in tassel loafers. In fine post-adolescent form, the play melodramatizes the trivial and passes lightly over the truly significant. It is hard to imagine anybody in the audience actually caring about the conflicts the play poses; even the protagonists seem strangely nonchalant about what would strike most mature people as the play's central conflict--an alleged teenage suicide--preferring instead to fight about who is dating whom and what pain is caused...
...Polish poet born in 1950 who was active in his country's anti-Communist movement, Herbert died in 1998, leaving behind an oeuvre that begins with spare poems about creation, antiquity and art. He then continues those themes through increasingly pointed and readable poetry while also developing a strong form of the prose poem that mixes fairy tales, images from everyday life and an aphoristic style. The recently published posthumous collection Elegy for the Departure and Other Poems offers a quick presentation of the body of his work, complemented by the simultaneously published King of the Ants, a collection...