Word: meshed
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Farafina. African drum and dance explosion. Inspired by ancient legends and accompanied by whirling and leaping dancers, the music of Farafina is a mesh of rhythms and West African sound. Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m. $17.50 plus 50 cent restoration fee. Call World Music at 876-9240 or TicketMaster at 931-2000 for more information and tickets...
Begala and others in the White House argue that a "signature" program like health-care reform must take priority over the trade agreement. This thinking happens to mesh with arguments set forth in a letter sent to Clinton last week by 103 Democrats who oppose NAFTA. Clinton isn't ready to postpone NAFTA indefinitely, but he agrees with Begala that health care must come first. If delay is indeed the Administration's tactic of choice, it would explain why Bill Daley of Chicago, the President's leading candidate to shepherd NAFTA through Congress, told at least one key House member...
...sometimes overpraised for feminist reasons, it carries a deep strand of % recollection interwoven with sexual fantasy and dreams of vengeance, refracted through strange uses of material. Included in the Venice show are some of her recent cage sculptures, including Cell (Choisy), a harsh essay on memory: inside an iron-mesh enclosure is a pink marble effigy of her childhood home in France, where her parents repaired Gobelin carpets. It has the enticing glow of a Magritte villa at dusk, but above the door to the cage, ready to be tripped, is a guillotine blade. You can't go home again...
...main exhibit in the Spanish pavilion is a room-size sculpture, featuring an oversize bed frame, wire mesh and chairs, by Antoni Tapies. Tapies 30 years ago was a painter of great distinction, but on the evidence of this cumbersome and vapid work, he has no talent for sculpture; he is there because the Spanish fixedly believe he is the successor to Picasso and Miro -- a nationalist illusion. The British pavilion, which in previous Biennales walked away with the show -- Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin and the sculptor Tony Cragg -- contains a disappointing survey of recent work...
...Lampoon isn't Kennedyesque for other reasons. Most glaringly, it doesn't seem to mesh with Kennedy's focus on "rational discussion." The Lampoon is almost as well known for its drug-infested bashes as for its publications...