Word: locus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went with a friend who loves classical ballet. Reading the program note for the second dance "Locus"--"The score for 'Locus' is a random ordering of 27 points on a cube of space immediately surrounding the standing figure"--she moaned, "It sounds awfully theoretical." But an awareness of the theoretical nuances of avant-garde dance is an initiation to familiarity with the academic language of classical ballet. The initiation makes you an insider, one party to a compact between artist and viewer. Once you're familiar with the compact, you can appreciate the dance as dance...
...UPPER WEST SIDE is a locus for New York basketball from the playgrounds of Riverside Park to the community games sponsored by Riverside Church. It is to this area that the future of the academic enclave of Morningside Heights is tied. Yet before this season, Columbia's basketball squad was struggling along near the Ivy League basement. The Lions are winning again and as a result have injected an immeasurable sense of optimism into the ambience of the community...
...first prize of the 1964 Venice Biennale. By 1955 the achievement of the abstract expressionists?Pollock, Gorky, de Kooning, Still, Rothko, Kline, Motherwell?was recognized across the Atlantic, and the aesthetic colonization of Europe by New York art began in earnest. In this momentous shift of taste, energy and locus, a younger generation of American artists would be the legatees. Its symbolic twins, its Castor and Pollux, were Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns...
...Evangelical Protestants, who number perhaps 40 million in the U.S., the Bible is not only the locus of faith but, increasingly, a subject of spirited debate. Things heated up considerably last week with the publication of The Battle for the Bible (Zondervan; $6.95). Its author: the Rev. Harold Lindsell, 62, editor of Christianity Today (circ. 118,000), the movement's most influential journal. True Evangelicals must believe that the Bible is completely error-proof or "inerrant," writes Lindsell, not only on doctrine and morals but on every detail of history and science. U.S. Evangelicalism, he warns, is being dangerously...
...film combines dextrous suspense with a broad humor uncharacteristic of Hitchcock's usual perverse sensibilities. Bruce Dern seems to finally ascending to the position as a major American star that has been predicted for him for years. Dern has cornered the market on self-conscious, self-deluding characters; the locus classicus of such types is California which Hitchcock has portrayed as a land of fast-food joints, endless highways and depraved small towns--in other words, accurately...