Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collection of adventurous theater directors, dancers, composers and rock musicians that has been bubbling south of Houston Street since the 1960s has wedded high art to pop culture. Composer Philip Glass has brought the pulsating idiom of rock into the sacred precincts of the opera house, while Theater Artist Robert Wilson's slow-motion dreamscapes have influenced not only a neophyte filmmaker like Byrne but an experienced theater director like Andrei Serban. Performance art, an offbeat amalgam of music, theater, narration and stand-up comedy, has caught flight on the puckish wings of Laurie Anderson. Choreographers such as Twyla Tharp...
...Loeb type," says president of Pudding Theatricals W. Nicholas Weir '87. "But when he got involved in the Pudding he fit in well and really enjoyed it. Then when he went on to writing scripts, he captured the essence of the Pudding show, understanding Pudding convention and idiom and pushing the formula to its limits...
...country's most talented and experienced journalists and is headed by Editor Jeff Penberthy, 43, who has worked in the U.S. and Japan as well as his native Australia for a variety of newspapers and business magazines. Penberthy's task will be to give TIME an Australian idiom while at the same time preserving the magazine's international character. Says he: "International events and impressions of this country abroad are having a critical effect on the Australian economy and affecting the daily lives of ordinary Australians. Naturally our awareness of these matters is rising, and for this reason the joint...
...Bartok Second Violin Concerto, a haunting, elegaic slow movement inspired by a mournful tune Bolcom heard whistled on the New York City subway and a riotous finale that is an homage to the late jazz fiddler Joe Venuti. Bright and accessible, the concerto is steeped in a popular idiom. "You don't have to tell people what it means," observes Luca, who is Rumanian born and Israeli raised. "The wonderful thing about playing it is that it is analogous to Mozart playing his works in Vienna. It is part of the lingo...
Dobrynin understood the American idiom and psychology, unlike most ambassadors. In the U.S., he was a hale fellow with a ready stock of one- liners and an indestructible alimentary canal. In Moscow or summiteering with his bosses, he faded into the background and became another cold-eyed lackey who, as he once did, jumped up and down like a kangaroo to open and close windows to accommodate Brezhnev's delicate health...