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...strange; while the doctors are supposed to reflect robots, again, emotion creeps into the scene and destroys the rhythm between the dialogue and actors machine-like movements. Similarly, Helen's descent into the underworld, replete with an affair, does not reflect a change of emotional intensity but continues the linear progression of a dissatisfied woman. No new miseries are brought to the audience's attention; if Helen is supposed to be the outsider with feelings, then she fails, for her development is fatalistic and mechanical...
...courses that history could take on the eve of the millenium. The first course is linear. We progress in our technological achievements and eventually we conquer the mysteries of flying cars and food capsules. We push our notion of The Future back a few years. Maybe The Future will become sometime after...
...dining halls bear little resemblance to their former selves. Gone is the linear set-up for food gathering, replaced instead with an arrangement that encourages students to mingle and congregate at different parts of the serving area...
...more unlikely looking event would be hard to find than the newest installment in his projected five-part "Cremaster" series--the first three done as videos and now the latest, and perhaps grandest, finished as a full-scale 35-mm film. Never one for the obvious or linear, Barney has dropped this piece into the sequence as Cremaster 2. On view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minn., through Oct. 17, the 79-min. film and the morgue-cold installation of objects that accompanies it (a mirrored saddle, miniature mountains done in salt, white barbells of salt and epoxy...
...greatest monuments of medieval art, standing only a little more than nine inches high. Its base, stem and bulb are decorated with some 80 tiny and exquisitely made enamel-glass plaques, representing mythical beasts, evangelists, angels, prophets and apostles. The gold surface between them carries a rich linear ornamentation that never gets congested. The silver-gilt cup, borne up on the stem, is quite plain: it shifts visual gear from the "worldly" solidity of the base to an abstract purity that seems transcendent. If you wanted a container for the blood of Jesus, it would be impossible to imagine...