Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corporate executive lunches with his firm's president and discovers that hard times are ahead. Would he be wrong to dump his own holdings in the corporation's stock...
...drawings are hard to look at in heavy wooden frames, and wearisome in their great succession. The enormous diversity of this collection deals it its death blow...
...hard to explain why. Drawings are intimate and unimposing art objects--more so than any other genre. The viewer must come to them, bring them out of themselves to get them to speak. But too many different things happen to allow one to really relax with any part of them. One leaves the exhibit overextended and vaguely annoyed...
...whether he will be recognized apart from his Cream identity. "I had a terrible hassle just trying to find a company willing to produce my new disc." Meanwhile, Bruce continues his struggle to increase his musical powers by writing inventions in the style of Bach. "Two part inventions are hard, but it's the three-part ones that are a real gas." He does all this without the help of a piano. His songs are always conceived as total entities. Most of the cuts on "Fresh Cream" were written out in full score, again without the aid of a piano...
...playing the young intellectual who hires Zorba to run the mine he has inherited, does little to suggest that he is Greek (which in this version, unlike the film, he is). But like Miss Karnilova, he compensates handily. As Niko, the man Zorba teaches how to live, Cunningham works hard to make his characterization more than the dull stiff it easily could be. He is, of course, helped out by the writing. Joseph Stein, the author of the show's book, establishes Niko quickly in the second scene and never allows him to fade from view after that...