Word: kineticism
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This will be difficult. Japan's culture, always kinetic, is now veering into territory where it has never been before. The Japanese postwar economic miracle is cresting. Japan is a fascinating success, as a business and as a society. It is prosperous and famously homogeneous, safe and civil, bound together...
Alan Kay, chief scientist of Atari, closed the conference with a vision of the video-game joy stick as a magic wand capable of creating new worlds. The video game, he said, aligned with the computer, was "a new kind of kinetic art," a medium that will allow the user...
From its earliest preview last December, this musical with magic found itself riddled with afflictions. Doug Henning, 35, may be America's premier illusionist, number his impish persona in eight TV specials and the longrunning 1974 extravaganza The Magic Show. But there are three things he cannot do onstage: sing...
He, too, seldom turns off the TV set in his Coldwater Canyon house in Beverly Hills. But TV dramatic shows make him wince because their makers are so clearly contemptuous of their audience. Actually, he says, audiences are very sophisticated about film, so that making a movie like Raiders is...
Mercuric Tidings, a new work set to excerpts from two Schubert symphonies, extends the choreographer's concern with the limits of stamina. For 23 grueling minutes, 1 3 members of the company, swathed in flamingo pink, fly, leap, bounce, swirl and tumble. The activity never pauses, and is so...