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...conceptions of the past. But it would be fairer to call Zardoz conservative. It is an extrapolation of the present. A group of scientists have achieved their ideal: the creation of an isolated world of enlightened immortals. This utopia, called a vortex, is encased like a gem within a matrix peopled by "brutals." The brutals are consigned to mortality, a mortality heightened by exterminators who massacre the brutals to prevent overpopulation. The immortals of the vortex are oblivious to these horrors. Only one of them ventures into the outlands. He travels in a giant stone head to organize exterminations...
...signify Sight. By contrast, the Cloisters' unicorn hunt is a highly complicated and frequently obscure allegory of the passion of Christ, mixed with references to courtly and profane love. But in each, a way of seeing reality that was both freshly direct and symbolic is embedded in a matrix of almost unbelievable formal beauty. Detail by detail, this is a show to be returned to and never to be exhausted. Robert Hughes
...experiment which might be extended to the whole river (via a large plant at Watertown Dam) if it succeeds in cleaning up Storrow Lagoon next summer. The plant will treat water already in the Charles with chemicals that bind with river water "to form a matrix in a fluffy kind of stuff," as Noss put it. There's some skepticism as to how well the plant will work: Sabin Lord, the engineer in charge of the lower Charles, has said he thinks the Metropolitain District Commission was sold a bill of goods. There are also as yet unapproved plans...
Meschers, 1951, was one result. Originally a scene of green pine trees and blue sea, it became a brisk mosaic of slender, bladelike forms set with cunning ambiguity between figure and field, in a matrix of dark ultramarine. A very "European" painting in its reference to the sharp edges and rich color of Matisse's paper cutouts, it is less so in its novel use of concealed chance...
...removed from our own. It is just this distance that makes Psalms of Two Davids an especially interesting show. The play unfolds when truth possessed a beautiful polarity-either the will of God or man reigned supreme in Isreal. Only the blessed could satisfy both masters. Within this matrix the cast of Psalms of Two Davids chants, dances and prays through an exceptional evening of drama...