Word: matter-of-fact
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These introductions are neither particularly moving, nor particularly dramatic; they are actually rather matter-of-fact. These are ordinary people. And when disaster strikes, their plight is all the more understandable and poignant. The real issues at stake become eminently clear. Without homes these people struggle just to keep their families and careers going...
What happens instead is a burst of violence that would seem incredible were | it not for Keene's matter-of-fact transcriptions of what he has seen or heard. He and a scouting party find three friends massacred: "Martha's breasts were skinned. They are made by Indians into bullet pouches, says Beam." That juxtaposition of horror and information perfectly captures the genius of this imaginary diary. For Nissenson has created an apparently loose, formless work that is poetic in its artful selectivity. Scarcely a word is wasted. Hardly an aspect of the struggle to found a new civilization remains...
...last week, Flamini found that normally informative sources had grown tight-lipped overnight. Said he: "One of the most talkative political centers in the world had suddenly fallen silent." In this unaccustomed atmosphere, Jerusalem Reporter Robert Slater drew on an unusual source. At one point Slater heard a matter-of-fact Israel Radio report that Israel and the U.S. were in close, continuous contact. Says Slater: "I realized the Israelis wanted everyone to know that genuine discussions were really going on between the two countries...
...almost immediately. Yet the description of the calculated murder of an escaped convict by a greedy old woman (Kathy Bates) and her submissive husband (Andy Backer) is spellbinding. Credit belongs in equal measure to Playwright Frank Manley and to the brilliant Bates, who reveals a deadly malevolence with matter-of-fact simplicity...
Mostly, Field, Chair and Mountain is a mesmerizing exploration of partnering. In the first section, ten couples float and bob repeatedly across the stage in supported leaps and lifts. Later, similar moves are made with or on the chairs. Sometimes the mood is lyrical, sometimes genially matter-of-fact or mocking. At one point, inevitably, there is a crisply paced round of musical chairs. It is Gordon's achievement that he unites his whole flurry of inspiration with a skewed but satisfying logic...