Word: goer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years ago, the Museum of Modern Art, New York did a study to see how long the average museum-goer spends looking at each painting in an exhibition. They came up with an average of 30 seconds per painting, proving that most people spend very little time and effort absorbing what they see on the walls of museums...
Your reviews only jeopardize that freedom, and cannot, within the space allotted, any any true insight into the "innovative works" you hope to promote interest in. The format of a brief newspaper review, as a guide for the theater-goer, is ideal for the more commercial productions in the houses, or at the Mainstage and Agassiz, but in the name of your own intent, do not become faulty guides to the Ex, where the audience members' greatest delight is in finding their own way. James J. Marino...
...museum- or theater-goer will often look too much for meaning, for some voice of expression hidden in a play or painting's abstraction. Sometimes we think we have found it, and this encourages our search. But, more often than not, we only find disappointment...