Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American Buffalo is a baffling play, and not a very good one, either. If Mamet meant to sketch the mean materialism inspired among the lower fringes of a capitalist society, he could have succeeded. But his play stretches for some deeper meaning, and in reaching for that goal topples over...
With national elections approaching, Mrs. Thatcher undertook a highly public effort to reach out to the common folk. She turned up for a walkabout along Petticoat Lane, London's celebrated street market, where she was bussed by a local huckster. But she also needed a popular issue, and so...
Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal chided the businessmen for so solidly opposing the President's tax bill. In reply, some of the guests asked why, at a time of record trade deficits, the Administration was seeking to end the provision deferring taxes on some export profits and earnings abroad...
There are those who have found any art of such absolute reduction too self-restricting, something abstracted beyond either beauty or meaning. Yet unlike painting or poetry or music, dance can never really be "abstract," because the shape of both instrument and perfected form is the familiarity of the human...
Which brings us to the finale. Suddenly, Pippin is surrounded by all the players and dancers. They implore him to achieve perfection in life through a flaming death. Just as they are about to persuade Pippin to take his life, Catherine comes back into the scene with Theo, and Pippin...