Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shcharansky faces a sentence that ranges from ten years in prison to an unlikely extreme of execution if he is convicted, and Attorney Dubrovskaya probably could not get him off even if she seriously attempted to. After all, he has already been convicted in the Soviet press. Tass Commentator Yuri...
The Omen is a soulless, gutless endeavor, an ultra-gory, workmanlike tale about the arrival of the anti-Christ, one Damien. (Every movie about the devil must have its "Damien"). Every ten minutes someone gets impaled, chucked out a window, or decapitated, the latter by a plate-glass window in...
The answers to these complex questions that the curriculum report provides exude a confidence that makes them immediately suspect. The rigidity of the guidelines for the proposed core courses suggests that the Harvard Faculty feels it has a monopoly on the ability to understand the real meaning of the vague...
The other work, "Rainforest," is equally disturbing: a stage filled with sinister silver helium balloons is the setting for a dance of desperate energy and haunting tenderness. In both these works, Cunningham's artistry provides the dance, allowing meaning and response to awaken spontaneously in each member of the audience...
In the same way, Cunningham's dances go beyond emotional mood to achieve a sense of archetypal form. Familiar gestures are the stuff of much Cunningham choreography, but abstracted onstage from their ordinary context they appear as the organic prototypes of the motions of day-to-day living, acquiring a...