Word: manquee
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Neither as chic as Paris nor as intriguingly edgy as Budapest, the Vienna of today is a cozy and polished metropolis. But at the beginning of the 20th century, Vienna was chockablock with giants of the age: Freud and Wittgenstein, Mahler, Berg and Schoenberg, Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Hoffmann, Wagner and...
It took World War I to bring Keynes to fulfillment. As an adviser in the Treasury, he began to develop Keynesian ideas--for example, that the "main use of gold reserves is to be used." The artist manque appeared. Keynes began to regard money the way a painter looks at...
Physically, though, he seems out of place, too big and awkward for Molina's refined sensibility. And what's this Yankee-manque doing in South America anyway? You keep expecting someone to translate his dialogue. Hurt as the "queen" appears studied: he doesn't let you forget the effort his...
These characters are, alas, entirely typical of Director Walter Murch's gloomily recharted Oz. Even Billina, the feathered critic manque, is part of the problem. She is a substitute for Toto, Dorothy's beloved dog, unaccountably left behind this trip. But though she can talk, she has less animation, and...
In dance, Glass is composing a new work for Choreographer Twyla Tharp to be produced in 1986. His CBS album of chamber music, Glassworks, part of which was used by Jerome Robbins for a hit ballet called Glass Pieces, has sold 115,000 copies worldwide since its 1982 release. In...