Word: gestalt
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...worthwhile evening's entertainment is, after all, something of an accomplishment. If the play has been changed along the way from a series of adventures into a series of comedy sketches--well, maybe that's not such a bad idea. Plot incomprehensibility aside, the humor created by this gestalt of interpretation and actors comes close to having a breath of genius. And as far as middle-school humor is concerned: although it might make our purist twitch to hear it--when it comes right down to it, toilet humor was something Shakespeare understood quite well...
gestalty: (gesh-TAL-tee) adj., resembling themes examined by the Gestalt school of psychotherapy...
Three booths away, Phyllis Light, a telepathic healer with a resume that includes certification as a rebirther, Gestalt therapist, acupressurist and neurolinguistic programmer, talks about helping a client get a part of him unstuck from where it got lodged 19 lifetimes ago. Ouch...
Long before this generation of young hipsters started reveling in the Vegas gestalt, certain intellectuals were taking seriously the city's no-holds- barred urban style. It was 25 years ago that a little-known architect and professor, Robert Venturi, returned to Yale with his two dozen student acolytes after a remarkable 10-day expedition to Las Vegas, where they stayed at the Stardust. His influential 1972 book, Learning from Las Vegas, immediately made Venturi famous as a heretical high-culture proponent for the ad hoc, populist design of the Strip -- the giant neon signs, the kitschy architectural allusions...
...fecund creativity? Seems so, as you listen to proud dad: "I watch Zachary absorbed in playing with his rockets, I listen to him whispering his multiple voices, and I think, 'That's where it comes from. That's the source.' " Williams tells a story of Zachary at his "gestalt" day-care center. "The teacher was playing tapes of noises for the kids to identify. One was of a baby crying, and a little girl said ((little girl voice:)), 'That's a baby crying.' Then they played a tape of laughter. 'I know! I know!' Zachary said. 'That's comedy...