Word: maximalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novella? Peter Brook undertook the radical surgery three years ago in Paris. Berg's Wozzeck set in a 19th century insane asylum? That was Hans Neugebauer and Achim Freyer's novel perspective in a Cologne production revived last season. Maxim Gorky's Summer Folk implausibly wed to a selection of Gershwin songs and renamed Hang On to Me? Peter Sellars performed the ceremony in May at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis...
...magnate had received a $250,000 finder's fee for merely making two telephone calls last June to help arrange the $30 million sale of Washington's Hay-Adams Hotel. "It's legal and ethical," Metzenbaum said. But the resulting publicity apparently reminded him of a maxim he has often preached: public officials must be concerned with appearances as well as legality. Last week he decided to return the fee, but a Washington real estate commission is nonetheless investigating the transaction...
HANG ON TO ME by Maxim Gorky...
...What do Maxim Gorky, the founder of Socialist realism, and the Gershwin brothers of Broadway and Hollywood have in common? That was the intriguing question when Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater announced that Director Peter Sellars, the theater world's newest Wunderkind, would make a musical out of Gorky's long, semipolemical play Summerfolk by adding Gershwin songs. After last week's opening of the hybrid, the answer is, alas, all too apparent: Gorky and Gershwin have nothing in common except Sellars himself...
...basis of Deng's pragmatic philosophy is summed up in his oft quoted dictum "It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice." The practical effects of that maxim have centered on the area in which Mao made his costliest errors: agriculture. During 25 years in power, Mao channeled the vast bulk of all investment into heavy industry, while neglecting to ensure a corresponding rise in food production. At the same time, he encouraged his people to maintain the country's explosive birth rate. Because of this, and a striking rise...