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...this reduced age, people are discombobulated by the prospect of fussing with a masterwork such as the Guggenheim. It is, after all, the greatest American architect's best-known building. And yet the Guggenheim's very singularity has always made it a wretched place to show pictures: the narrow ramp that hugs the inside wall has been the museum's main exhibition space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finally Doing Right By Wright | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

Frank Lloyd Wright's masterwork gets a splendid overhaul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

THREE SISTERS. Terse, scatological David Mamet and wistful, musing Anton Chekhov make a far from obvious marriage, but after successfully adapting one of the Russian's short stories and Uncle Vanya, Mamet and his Atlantic Theater Company take on a masterwork at Philadelphia's Festival Theater for New Plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Jan. 28, 1991 | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

...masterwork of evasion and obfuscation, the official response recites the entire litany of official excuses for the policies, regardless of relevance, factual correctness or mutual contradiction. A few examples...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admissions for Fun and Profit: Why Byerly Hall Won't Tell All | 11/27/1990 | See Source »

...abrupt power of surprise. Among a solid ensemble cast, Jack Heller is a wonderfully hissable overlord, full of chill arrogance and hot rage, and Domenique Lozano and Stephen Burks are the most affecting of his victims. The chief asset, however, is the play itself, which is both a singular masterwork and a reminder to every U.S. nonprofit theater that there remains a rich array of unproduced European stage classics from before the 19th century and beyond the English language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: News That Stays the News | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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