Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WITH SPIRITS as lush and sensuous as the costumes they wore, a troupe of actors known as the Glorious Ones played their hearts out to street audiences in 17th century Italy. Their improvisations were passionate and bawdy, but so charming that even Church-supported French nobility were seduced into laughter. Impresario Flaminio Scala concocted such a dynamic group by painstakingly typecasting each member perfectly. So all they needed to do--Armanda the grotesque but sharp-witted dwarf, Pantalone the cross miserly Jew, Dottore the pompous doctor of quackery, Brighella the spiteful gadfly, and the others--was get up on stage...
...tale raises no great anxieties and the recounting of a gruesome and cruel death loses its cutting edge. She is the last to speak, pronouncing judgments on her fellow players which the reader must either accept or remain unsatisfied by denying. Isabella died in labor as the other Glorious Ones made reluctant half-hearted efforts to aid her. She explains that most of them wanted her to die because they envied her fertility. They themselves could only feel a love that was laden with hate and scorn; thus they were impotent or sterile. Her second pronouncement is harsher, but contained...
...Tlingit art was infiltrated by white gold-seekers. That glaring Thunderbird and his ilk must have scared a good number of interloping foreigners back to safety and Seattle. But that glorious beast has been toned down enough by the 19th century classicism of the MFA rotunda to loose this power. On the whole, it's a good thing. People should not be scared away from this show...
...world's largest windjammers closed a series of races by parading into the harbor of Kiel, West Germany. The book ends with a catalogue of boats that took part-square-riggers with skyscrapers of sail, brigantines, Dutch gaff cutters, topsail schooners. In between there is nothing but glorious pictures of tall ships, webbed traceries of cordage, acre upon acre of canvas, panoramas showing the vast fleet dotting troubled waters, symmetrical silhouettes of crews aloft on yardarms, looking like Chinese gymnasts, bringing in sail. The same great ships appear again and again, but no matter-in this case familiarity breeds...
...simply but not so simply that everything seems symbolic. Director Rob Hershman works with the expansiveness, and when he gets such fine performances out of Richard Bangs and Adam and Catherine Dean as Eve, what emerges is something that shovels ideas less than it rolls out words in a glorious ramble...