Word: minimalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Astaire ballet is almost a divertissement, basically more evidence of Robbins' obsession with the problems of partnering. His major work for City Ballet in this busy spring is Glass Pieces, a 26-minute work set to the minimalist compositions of Philip Glass. This ballet shows the bold side, the brainy city strutter in Robbins. Formal, clear and well structured, it is his strongest work in years. It begins with 33 dancers, dressed in multicolored practice clothes, walking briskly across the stage, each alone, no two taking precisely the same route. This traffic is directed by Glass's galvanizing...
...Coup de Foudre, French Film Maker Diane Kurys (Peppermint Soda) etched an acute, critical portrait of her own family in the early 1950s and drew splendid performances from Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert and Guy Marchand. Chantal Akerman, a Belgian director whose monumental minimalist soap opera, the 1975 Jeanne Dielman, has made her queen of the European film avantgarde, confounded all expectations with a sprightly, witty musical called The '80s. The Cannes audience came to snooze and stayed to cheer...
...perplexing to watch Rockwell extol an "outsider" or vanguard composer for'eign willing to depart from the ordinary and then give the distinct impression that his subject is not worth writing about. In the middle of a discussion of the problems posed by minimalist composer Philip Glass, he says of the subject of an earlier essay. "A composer like [Frederic] Rzewski can shift facilely from idiom to idiom because, to be blunt, nobody cares what he does, least of all the people...
...famed Saturday Night Massacre of October 1973. Two weeks ago, Presidential Adviser Craig Fuller telephoned Interior Department Head James Watt to get a conservative reading. Watt was enthusiastic about Ruckelshaus and said that in private conversations he had found him sympathetic to the Administration's environmental policy and minimalist approach to regulation. Later that day Watt telephoned Ruckelshaus to administer what an aide termed a "philosophical litmus test." Said the aide: "He passed...
...charges against Hernandez forced the White House to accelerate its search for a blue-ribbon successor for the top job, a tricky matter since the nominee must be enough of an environmental advocate to withstand congressional scrutiny and yet fit in with the President's more minimalist approach to regulation. The leading contender was William Ruckelshaus, the first EPA administrator under President Nixon and now a senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser, a wood and paper company. But his industry connections may make him suspect to environmentalists. Said Democratic Congressman Edward Markey: "What we clearly need...