Word: irregularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wuorinen's solo "Variations," a frantic and exhausting work, did more than demonstrate his incredible virtuosity at the keyboard. Single, timid treble notes undercut the frenetic, tempestuous rumblings of the bass keys as if the composer were sardonically mocking his own contemporary style. Radical shifts in volume and highly irregular rests produced an extraordinarily witty beginning to a piece which seemed to grow in creasingly bitter...
...Earl of Kent, Yann Weymouth, who acts with welcome restraint amid the general ranting; and Edgar, Richard Backus, who makes a fine fool and a noble Edgar. John Ross as Albany and Thomas Weisbuch as Cornwall both perform well, but they are in demanding company. John Lithgow plays an irregular Gloucester. His blinding scene is one of the play's best moments, but too frequently he swings his long arms and lines to less purpose; he is Marlowe's Edward Ii a little older...
Pyramids in the Flatness. As with the rural regions of Texas, each major Texas city has a character of its own, alike only in that the skyline of each seems to loom as an irregular pyramid in a desert of flatness. Houston is a lightly governed city that has outstripped all of its rivals partly because of its strategic location, partly because its people are free, unselfconscious, build for the pure pleasure of doing big things. Dallas, honestly but rigidly ruled by a business oligarchy, has been fretting about its image since long before Nov. 22. It quarrels with nearby...
...musical Jennie was the biggest money loser, since its nut was $550,000 and it ran only ten weeks. The best play to fall was Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal (it lost $40,000). Other foldees: Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy ($90,000 down), The Irregular Verb to Love ($35,000), Love and Kisses ($100,000), Double Dublin ($45,000). This crop was quickly followed by Tennessee Williams' new version of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More...
Breathing Brushstroke. Bissier's art is in a sense torn literally off the fabric of the world. Working from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. in his studio on the Swiss end of Lake Maggiore, he prepares thready-edged linen canvas or irregular pieces of batiste shirting. Over these loose, unframed scraps, he lays on slick sizing so that subsequent brushstrokes in oil tempera seem to float above the surface. He paints where the bristles of his soft, often home-made brushes lead him. He says he is "listening to the brush-I want my colors to breathe...