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...police in Manhattan narrowly averted a "grid lock," the ultimate traffic jam, in which no motor vehicle can move in any direction. An angry bicyclist bit a policeman; an upset motorist tried to run down a policewoman. It was the ninth day of the transit strike, and the élan that New Yorkers had shown in the first week of the walkout had washed away...
...surface with emphatic silhouetted forms, stopping just short of congestion, is the animating principle of O'Donnell's work: he is a trader in visual surprises who can set his big, fractured geometrical forms, the loops and slices and incomplete circles of color, moving with splendid élan. A work like Palaestra, 1979, shows his peculiar talent for keeping up a lively debate between edge and surface in the reactions between the rhythmical curves of the design and the slices made into the canvas by its wooden framing battens. Squiggling, spinning, breaking off into ribbons and trellis-like...
...Carter Administration is coming under increasing pressure to adopt the shortsighted position of support for continued white domination in Rhodesia. In a shocking display of cynicism and ignorance about Africa, the Senate recently voted to endorse the "internal settlement" and the so-called "elections" engineered by Prime Minister lan Smith. Massachusetts Senator Paul E. Tsongas, in opposing the Sentate bill to send an observer team to those "elections," compared Senate recognition of the white-dominated regime to the Tonkin Gulf resolution of 1964, which gave Congressional support to the escalation of the Vietnam...
...music, to show off his serene purity of line.) On opening night, The Four Seasons was on the program between two Balanchine masterpieces, Concerto Barocco and Symphony in C. Those ballets were brutal competition for the new work, which nonetheless won the crowd with its buoyancy and élan. Rossini once said that all kinds of music are good except the boring kind. That goes for ballet too. - Martha Duffy
...play Night and Day, currently running at London's Phoenix Theater, is a distinct departure. The characters are emotionally engaged and audience-involving. Like flexing previously unused muscles, this leads to odd moments of strain, which is not to say that Stoppard's satiric eye and élan vital do not make for a prevailingly entertaining evening...