Word: impressioniste
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...HOTLINE POLITICAL COMEDY CONCERT FOR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Twenty-four hours into the Bush era, and the comedy won't be pretty. Comics include Bob Somerby, a Gore roomie at Harvard, Arianna Huffington and impressionist Jim Morris, who has added W. to his repertoire. Warner Theater...
...costumes against a pale yellow sun, the two women ballet rather than battle it out, leaping over the treetops and chasing each other's dress trains, while leaves, fanned by the wind, drift down like confetti tossed by an admiring god. It's as though Zhang took a French impressionist canvas for a backdrop and spooled it onto the lens - a Monet brought to life by two dancing scarlet brushes...
...music or political philosophy--but the point should be obvious. The good news, of course, is that like the lucky, imaginary Rudolph, we too can read Conrad (or Nietzsche, to give the Teutons their due), we too can wander the Musee d'Orsay and see the flowering of the Impressionist genius--we too can enjoy the culture of a lost time...
...ancient city of Aix-en-Provence, with its university and 137,000 residents, has long been associated with artists, most notably Impressionist Paul Cezanne. The Cours Mirabeau, the city's main street, is a delightful tunnel of greenery featuring sprawling plane trees and elegant mansions. Anderson and Strait enjoy walking the maze of back alleys that wind through markets, past historical monuments, artisan boutiques, art galleries and art-supply stores. "The city has a movement and lifestyle that is a great counterpoint to our somewhat isolated home," says Strait...
...circus and performance art. Notre Dame de Paris, imported earlier this year to the new Paris (the Vegas hotel) from the old Paris (the French city) is an ambitious Les Miz-style opera that retells--drearily--the famed Hunchback tale. Even the town's hottest headliner, musical impressionist Danny Gans, devotes less time to the usual Vegas icons (Sinatra, Tony Bennett) than to relatively obscure (to the high rollers in the crowd, anyway) rock-era performers like Boz Scaggs and Aaron Neville...