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DIED. Carl Orff, 86, German composer who turned his back on complex modern styles to fashion a highly personal idiom of folklike melodies and elemental rhythms; in Munich. In Carmina Burana, a 1936 cantata based on writings collected by a 13th century Benedictine monk, Orff used simple, vigorous tunes and choral chants to celebrate the joys of food, drink and love. He pared down to an even more stylized primitivism in his Antigonae (1947-48) and Oedipus der Tyrann...
...lights rise on a fairly elaborate living room, cluttered and homey No streetlamps here: the idiom is absolutely current, the conversation of two writers in their early 20s grounded in references so familiar and accessible that they occasionally give one pause. The writer, John Monroe (Kevin Porter), is an Amherst dropout writing a novel. A former girlfriend wanted him to go back to business school, he tells Natalie, the lover who narrates his story, but the relationship went nowhere Natalie. (Pamela Thomas) has graduated and now works as a secretary in the publishing house where John hopes to submit...
...weakness) done by an American artist of his generation. Pale blue Pacific air, cuts and slices of gable, white posts by the sea, sudden drop-offs of hill or throughway-these images of the California coast have found their way into them, but in a condensed and fully digested idiom whose sources, far back in the early 20th century, are Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian...
...balls. While the pedaling clown was catching or kicking these, it was decided there should be occasional hazards too: some of the thrown objects could be anvils that he would have to avoid. Scratch that, said someone; you cannot throw anvils. So eventually, bombs were substituted. (In the violent idiom of video games, this makes perfect sense...
...attempt to deal with that old and irritating question: Why can't we do these things as well as the British? The answer, if the Cheever play is an indication of what follows, is that we can, if we are true to our own talents and our own idiom. That, at least, is what a consortium of four stations-in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and South Carolina-are trying to prove. With a budget of $12.9 million, they have filmed or taped programs all over the country. Next on the list are BJ. Merholz's King...