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...drama is one actor on a bare stage, emoting. Perhaps not surprisingly in a century devoted to minimalism in every area of the arts -- and lately to downsizing in every area of commerce -- producers and performers are increasingly taking that definition literally. Broadway box office is dominated by maximalist musicals known to cynics as the helicopter show (Miss Saigon), the chandelier show (The Phantom of the Opera), the barricades show (Les Miserables) and the zoo story (Cats). But occasionally on Broadway, and incessantly off it, this is also a heyday of the one-person show...
...Israel-P.L.O. peace accord is merely a tactical retreat by a P.L.O. that retains the maximalist goal of destroying Israel -- then the accord will fail. As soon as the veil is dropped, the war resumes...
...love his books. As a child I couldn't understand, since his name was the same, why we weren't related. He was a maximalist, and that's what I admire. Somebody once told him to take out all that was not necessary. And he said, "No. I'm a putter-inner." And that's what I am, a putter-inner...
...retrospective affirms the panache and mental horsepower that make Frank Stella the grand maximalist of abstract painting...
When Secretary of State George Schultz and his Soviet counterpart. Andrei Gmomyko, emerge from their closed session this afternoon, it is hard to see that anything meaningful will have transpired, at least according to the maximalist standards held by the hordes of Western press who have flocked to Geneva. The best that can be hoped for will be an agreement for the two, or some of their underlings, to meet again to continue discussion on how to make reductions in the huge nuclear stockpiles held by the two countries. Certainly, however, such future talks will be doomed to failure...