Word: illusioners
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Engel inserts the audience both physically and dramatically into the action. Physically, the audience is underground with the cast, divided into three sections around the stage, and looking through green diaphanous curtains which hang from the ceiling like death shrouds. Coffin covers, large bones and all manner of trailer trash...
The delusionary life of Mr. Weaver allowed him to perpetuate his adolescent dreams in the illusion of Ron McKelvey.
Sports are now expected to transcend life. Too often, athletic stars carry their mantles of "invincibility" off the field. The illusion of immortality, the worshipful adulation of thousands, has become deceptively sustaining, a new opiate of the people. This addictive myth of sports immortality lies in its perpetuation of adolescence...
Life is not a game. There is no immortality in victory, only the illusion of continual adolescence. To grow up means discovering this simple, ancient virtue of sport.
Vermeer's visual music is utterly mysterious. He wasn't only abstract on the large scale of composition, negative shape and depth. When you look at the details, you see a system of coherent microforms in every representation of small pattern and texture, whether he's doing the faux-marble...