Word: marches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GOYA AND THE SPIRIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This superb show rescues the Spanish master from the romantic shadows of the Goyaesque and presents him as a man immersed in the liberal currents of his time. Through March...
...military officers and rightist politicians that the recent upsurge in political murders must be reversed if the U.S. is to continue pumping $545 million a year into the country. Quayle also encouraged Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte to reconsider his rejection of the leftist rebels' request that the March elections be postponed so they can take part...
China first hinted at a change of heart by pointedly referring to Gorbachev as "comrade" following his rise to power in 1985. But most of the diplomatic action -- and concessions -- in the march toward reconciliation has come from Moscow. As diplomats in Britain sum up the warming trend: "Russia woos and China coos...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has an image problem. Ever since Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat enticed the U.S. into a dialogue in December, Israel has been on the diplomatic defensive. With Shamir scheduled to visit Washington in March, he is eager to counter with some move of his own, and he has been signaling that he will arrive with an imaginative peace plan in his hip pocket. Meantime, he has been raising expectations by doling out hints about his forthcoming initiative...
...rest of this season, though, BAM already has two very unusual projects in the works. The first, at the Majestic in March, is the Mahagonny Songspiel (1927) by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, a small-scale early draft of their corrosive parable, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. The eccentric director Peter Sellars has eccentrically decided to combine this with the same singers performing eight Bach choral works. But the piece de resistance, which just finished two weeks of performances in Paris and is due in Brooklyn in May, is a 313-year-old opera that almost...