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Most people leave Caligula with one dominant thought: Camus is heady stuff. Director Vicente Castro, the professional drama coach for the experimental ensemble, attempts half-heartedly to make Camus's abstruse philosophy palatable to the audience, allowing his actors to gloss over nuance with passion, tenderness with violence. Unfortunately, this attempt to tone down the obscure philosophy fails to solve the problems in the play. The members of the audience leave with befuddled expressions on their faces, feeling like they've just been bludgeoned by the Poetic and Profound and that they should probably spend the rest of the evening...
...appeared a thankless, nasty task. Yet in the past year, as the controversy over the Bakke case rages and as political thinkers choose sides in the debate over the issues of welfare reform and federal aid to cities, more and more people have begun to see beyond the blinding gloss of the new ethnicity to the bottom line, reactionary impulse that lurks behind. Signs of this exposure are even now surfacing in the popular press. Side by side with its "Is America Turning Right?" cover story several weeks ago, Newsweek magazine ran a photographic "who's who" that resembled nothing...
...history, I, Claudius is pure Robert Graves-though his vision is perhaps no more inaccurate than any other history's. As high-gloss soap opera, however, the series is little short of wonderful...
...knotted shadows of expressionism, the sunny rectangle-color as disembodied energy. Hygiene is an obsessive theme of constructivism: a design like J J Pieter Oud's Cafe Restaurant De Unie, 1925, is not to be imagined with a scintilla of city grime on it. Steel, chrome, tile, gloss paint were the rudiments of utopia, but, above all, glass. Paeans were written to the constructivist cathedral, the transparent tower. "Life is a burden without a glass palace," rhapsodized the poet and designer Paul Scheerbart...
...roll," but he was the first to consolidate all its divergent roots into a single, surly, hard-driving style. Rock had its origins deep in rhythm and blues, which, in a time of strict musical segregation, was black music all the way. Presley gave rock and blues a gloss of country-and-western and a rockabilly beat, but he preserved the undertones of insinuating sexuality, accentuated rock's and blues' rough edges of danger from the sharp beat to the streetwise lyrics. "It was like a giant wedding ceremony," Marion Keisker said later, "like two feuding clans...