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...exposed our magical thinking about what constitutes a middle-class lifestyle. Flash back a generation to the house with the white picket fence. It had a black-and-white TV with an antenna, a car in the garage, a chicken in every pot and two kinds of lettuce (light green and dark green). Now the average house is more than 50% bigger, the car is twice as powerful (and there's often more than one), the TV is flat and gets 900 channels, and we expect the grocery store to have strawberries year-round and about 50 flavors of mustard...
...represents a new development in Ho’s philosophy that occurred after he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006. His entire approach to music has become part of a much more organic, earth-conscious process, and he is now focusing on a new project, the Green Monster Big Band. “The old Fred Ho that engaged in whatever produced the toxicity that led to my cancer, that path cannot be returned to now. I’m a part-time farmer now, farmer Fred. I’m about four years...
...bizarreness of the dance in releasing the dancers’ strength, in trying to find new ways of responding to movement,” Jáquez says. Jáquez combined modern dance with hip-hop, classical, and martial arts elements, and his three dancers, painted as green monsters, counterpointed the music with their own flowing narrative...
...hoping to bring “Take the Zen Train” and the Green Monster Big Band to New York venues soon. In the meantime, he is working on getting his Cancer Diaries published, and he continues advocating the lifelong social message he believes in. “It’s a mistake, an illusion to think that art is not political. All art is, even when it professes to not be. Because, even by not being political it simply rubberstamps the status quo,” he explains, adding, “[Art is] a sledgehammer against...
...Burton cut the recurring chorus, “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” the composer said he approved of the choice; in his opinion, choruses in musicals, during which nonessential background characters suddenly join the leads in song, have a “peasant on the green mentality”; his technique is ineffective in films, where the focus lies more on dramatizing interior emotions than creating theatrical spectacle...