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Such are the arresting components of Available Light, a 55-minute collaboration of three prominent minimalists that premiered last week in Los Angeles. Created by Choreographer Lucinda Childs, Composer John Adams and Architect Frank O. Gehry, Available Light is less a milestone than a signpost. Today's avant-garde has had to circle back on its forebears: the same impulse that gave rise earlier in this century to atonal music and flamboyant attitudes in dance now deals in the certainties of plotless movement and assertive major triads...
Much as Miss Piggy might like to claim that moi is responsible, the porker boom began long before the Muppets' superstar made her bow. Miss P., sniffs Lucinda Vardey, co-author of the anthology of pig lore, Pigs: A Troughful of Treasures (Macmillan; $14.95), "has done a lot for pig relations, but she is not a true pig. She is purely human and has very few pig qualities." Vardey's collaborator, Sarah Bowman, feels that the pig boomlet has ancient roots. "The love of pigs is an inborn thing," she says. "I have always thought that wallowing...
...Lucinda B. Hanna Arlington...
Also present at Loon Lake are Bennett's wife Lucinda, a world-famous aviator, and Warren Penfield, a drunken poet whom she keeps on as a pet and confidant. And an uninvited guest arrives: a young hobo named Joe, who wanders onto Bennett's property and is nearly killed by a pack of vicious dogs. As he recuperates, a young woman employee on the estate explains his accident: "Those are wild-running, those dogs. It's the fault of the people who own them and can't feed them any more. And then they...
...wants an answer. His wife Jo (Frances Conroy) stops him, however, with a game of her own. One by one she tells their friends exactly who and what they are: Fred is a crude redneck, and Carol is his latest bimbo; Edgar is a spiritual cripple, and his wife Lucinda is an irritating bore. But everyone forgives Jo because she is visibly dying of cancer and is just radiating a part of her own intense pain. Jokes Edgar: "Any well-stocked larder should have ridicule and contempt...