Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twelve-year-old boy's sweet smile makes a poignant contrast to his otherwise pitiful appearance. His arms and legs are deformed and bent, as though he had suffered from rickets. Several fingers are missing. A large open wound covers one knee, and the smiling lips are bitten raw. He looks for all the world like a battered child, but only nature is to blame for his condition. He was born with an extremely rare genetic defect that makes him insensitive to pain. His fingers were either crushed or burned because he did not pull his hand away from...
...Ferraro and Dianne Feinstein most often mentioned as Democratic Veep possibilities: >Patricia Schroeder, 43. A Harvard-trained lawyer and a Congresswoman since 1973, the Coloradan is a leading member of the House Armed Services Committee. While getting high marks for her military expertise, Schroeder is often seen as a knee-jerk dove. She co-chairs the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, which counts 117 men among its 132 members. An outspoken feminist, Schroeder is married to a Washington lawyer and has two teen-age children. Her political profile is left of center: the liberal Americans for Democratic Action...
...odds and sods, the CIVIL warS is a tightly knit, carefully planned work that uses visual, verbal and musical images the way Wagner used leitmotivs: to unify and clarify complex relationships among ideas and to weave of his various strands a single tapestry. The tree of the first "knee play" is transformed into the astronauts' ladder and finally into the oaken Lincoln of the last act. The detritus of war - the toppling bodies of mortally stricken soldiers, the bombed-out city of Cologne - is swept away by the final "knee play" as a new tree grows from the pages...
...music ranges from the unexpectedly relaxed, New Orleans-style brass band score for the Knee Plays, by David Byrne, who is best known as the aggressive lead singer for the progressive rock group Talking Heads, to the sound collages of Germany's Hans Peter Kuhn. At least one section, however, amounts to a full-fledged opera: Glass's Act V, from Rome...
...CIVIL warS 1 Its director-designer is practically a cultural expatriate, far better known in the more adventurous European theater world than he is in his own country. "I thought this would be the thing that brought my work back to America," says Wilson, with some bitterness. The Knee Plays will tour Europe next fall, and plans are afoot for performances of various other sections in the south of France and in Mu nich in 1985. The best prospects for the world's first complete production, though, seem to be at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in October...