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Phaedra, wife of Theseus, spurned and disgraced, twists and writhes in an agony of incestuous love for her stepson Hippolytus. Loosening a white silk sash at her waist, she knots it around her throat, pulls it tight, then falls to the ground in a lifeless swoon, her hair spilling in an orange cloud over her crimson robes. On a balcony overhead, a chorus splits the air with a rising lament-a sort of aural locust swarm-followed by a series of immense, loud gong-tones...
...loss entombs Harvard solitarily in the Ivy League cellar, with a lifeless 0-5 record. Yale finished at 1-4, one notch ahead of the Crimson...
...Presley imprimatur. While the colonel does not actually appear in Elvis on Tour, his influence is strongly felt. Thus, although it is supposed to be a documentary, most of the movie's scenes seem as spontaneous as the Sadlers Wells Ballet. The concert footage is sweaty and lifeless, the music a combination of housebroken rock and soul-less gospel...
...second album, Hot Licks Cold Steel and Truckers Favorites. Long a regular attraction around Berkeley, the Airmen did not release an album until last year. That album, Ozone, was a failure by the group's own admission. "We didn't know what we were doing then," Cody explained. The lifeless vocals and empty back-up effectively imitated the atmosphere of country music without exciting anybody in particular. But, said the Commander, the addition' of a new steel-guitar player had sparked the group and great things were in store for album...
...been primary. In 1896 the famous Dreyfus case in France brought support from all the avant-garde artists of the time and caused Monet to sign a protest--the one overt political act of his life. George Orwell pointed out that when his works lacked political purpose they were lifeless. When great moral issues enter the world arena, artists react as a group as do other members of the community. In reaction to the Fascists in World War II, artists held shows of protest. The artist's subject matter has often changed in protest, and in contemporary society political awareness...