Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost unplayable role with consummate skill, infusing his portrayal of Shakespeare's king with an all-involving humanity. Cobb's Lear lacks something of the necessary majesty but is totally convincing in the sad scenes of madness. Director Gerald Freedman elicits beautifully modulated acting from the Lincoln Center Repertory Company. Philip Bosco as Kent stands out in a supporting cast that truly supports...
Tale of Two Parks. The first violence took place on a Sunday night in and around Lincoln Park, which had been chosen as yippie headquarters. Like all Chicago parks, Lincoln had an 11 p.m. curfew, which had been on the books for decades but was seldom enforced...
Newsmen and other observers could not understand why Lincoln Park was swept clear each night at curfew and why Grant Park, opposite the Loop, was not. The report solves this mystery and, like so much in the confrontations, the difference came down to a matter of personality. The deputy chief of police in charge of Lincoln Park said that if the curfew was not enforced, yippies and others would take it as a sign of weakness...
Snakish Slide. To prove his point, Davis is currently engaged in a Berlioz bash during a four-week guest stand with the New York Philharmonic at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. At the opening concert, devoted entirely to Berlioz works, the audience clearly got the idea of what Davis means by voltage and terror. The first composition was the overture to Les Francs-Juges, an unfinished opera about the secret vigilante courts that terrorized Germany in the Middle Ages. The overture, as Davis says, "has a sort of white-hot energy. In the middle there is the most pathetic, square...
...Rope Is an Idea. One change has been the new emphasis on soft, amorphous Oldenburgian constructions, works that fold and change from day to day. They share sloppiness and seeming crudity. Museumgoers in Chicago and Milwaukee this year found themselves climbing inside semitransparent, womblike constructions by Frank Lincoln Viner and Jean Lindner. Unlike Oldenburg's work, these works depict no recognizable object, but like it, they change with the touch of a human hand...