Word: lebow
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...insights, though cogent and integrated into casual dialogue with obvious mastery of craft, come out of so many textbook summaries and sound too regurgitated to be more creative than didactic. Original characters have always been his fort, and here, again, they are at once brilliant and painfully funny. Will LeBow as the art dealer, Sagot (both real and reputedly a patron of the Lapin Agile), pompous, self-important and fake when it comes to anything but buying and selling, lights up the stage with every appearance. Leslie Beatty as Germaine, the waitress, is sassy and direct and knows...
...that someone is gay. His assistant Barbara DeMarco (Rebecca Fasanello), has a thick Boston accent and blue hair to match her clothes. The patrons of the salon are a hetero geneous group Mrs. Shubert is a Boston socialite--they used to call her Muffy at Radcliffe; Edward Lawrence (Will LeBow) is an antiquarian who conducts business with a famous pianist living in the same building. There is Mike Thomas (Mark S. Cartier) a geeky guy with a bowtie who opens his eyes really wide whenever Whitcomb touches him suggestively and Nick Rossetti (Michael Fennimore) who walks into the salon...
Price's work has nothing to do with such discursive archness. And it has ^ even less to do with the Bernard Leach tradition of quiet good taste and honesty in materials that grew out of Chinese and Japanese ceramics. As Edward Lebow points out in his engaging catalog introduction to this show, Price, from his student days in Peter Voulkos' West Coast classes, "devoted much of his studio effort to clearing his throat and going ptooey on 'creative craft' and 'good design...
State officials were no less skeptical the first time Schaefer scrambled the chairs of 31 Cabinet members three years ago. Even this year, there was some foot dragging. "I bitched my head off, but it was an eye opener for everybody," says director of public relations Lainy LeBow, who also went to the human resources department. "I'll be the first to sign up next time." Some of the officials grumbled over the added hours, but most of their anxiety was about outsiders' big-footing on their territory. Everybody in Annapolis remembers the last swap, in 1988, when housing secretary...