Word: miasma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always so, as one speaker recalled, reading reviews from nearly a half-century ago: "Clear as literary gumbo"; "Easy to read as a road sign way down on Miasma River." In 1946 a New Republic critic found Delta Wedding such tough going he did not finish the book. And Diana Trilling said of the same creation that she was vexed trying to determine "how much of my distaste" had to do with the work and how much to do with the culture...
...other value or contribution to the production. At Harvard, Sellars' use of imaginative economy out of necessity was clever and even provocative, but in the real world it appears cheap, lazy and negligent. Besides, we have seen most of it before in Sellars' past shows. The attempt at surreal miasma falls short of what he has done in productions such as King Lear, and too many techniques remain unexplained: on stage, for instance, the stage manager and light board at down left and down right. Why? Brechtian alienation? To indicate controlling forces like puppeteers? Sellars lets us neither know...
...silent scream. They no longer readily accept any portion of blame in a society that has traditionally been ambivalent about siding with them. In the past decade, as women have gained greater equality, women's groups have coalesced across the country to work to bring rape out of a miasma of shame, insensitivity and injustice. In many ways, the crusade has paid off. There has been widespread improvement in the way rape victims are treated by the police, courts and hospitals. There are now more than 700 rape crisis centers nationwide. Laws in most states have been toughened, conviction rates...
...charitably be called drivel which Alexander Cockburn published in The Village Voice, you ought to be a rabid anti-Semite. Only a few Martin Peretz, William Safire and Norman Podhoretz among them had the intelligence to announce that the Americans were being snarled in lies. Even today, when the miasma of Sabra and Shatila lingers heavily, few thoughtful people would claim to know what happened--or, for that matter, what is happening in Lebanon...
...comparison. While hardcore absurdist buffs may find this collection of long, gray pauses and slow, expressionless voices interesting Ghost Trio acts primarily as a soporific and is assuredly not worth staying for. Better to walk out during the brief intermission between the shows, however gingerly, with the oppressive miasma of Krapp still fresh in your mind...