Word: kineticism
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Historians sometimes divide the Presidents into three categories under the names of the three archetypical Chief Executives. James Buchanan, Lincoln's predecessor, was the formalist who administered but did not lead the country. Lincoln was the heroic leader whose stewardship was passionate, argumentative and highly political. Grover Cleveland was...
Bruno dies on the last page. Much of the book is taken up with an intricately choreographed, totally absurd mating dance set in motion around his fusty deathbed, as various relatives pursue each other in preposterous shifting triangles like the occupants of a French bedroom farce. They even fight a...
American youth stormed on the national political scene in 1968 with galvanic gusto. Yet for all their efforts, both creative and disruptive, the young dissidents remained on the outside looking in on the American political process. For the most part, they were not old enough to back up their beliefs...
Menotti, 57, thinks of Amahl as a work written for a generation of children that could still dream of earthly fantasies like buried treasure and magic visitors. "The Globolinks I've thought up for the unsentimental children of the new generation," he says. He also designed it as total...
Last week "The Machine," a ten-week-long exhibit of 220 works detailing the myriad ways in which artists have viewed the mysterious powers that inhabit cogs, gears and transistors, opened at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art.* The exhibit (see color pages) was put together by K. G...