Word: minimalistically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mostly the shift is away from traditional swashbuckle and toward more contemporary themes. Metropolitan Opera general manager Joseph Volpe notes that last year's stagings of Philip Glass's minimalist opera The Voyage didn't sell out, but he saw a whole new crowd in his theater. Increasingly, composers are turning to emotionally charged contemporary subjects. Stewart Wallace's Harvey Milk is considered a forerunner of a new creative order. On the drawing boards are works about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Michael Daugherty, and John Duffy's Black Water, about Chappaquiddick...
DUNSTER HOUSE--The quiet past Thursday evening was punctuated, as usual, by quiet, melliflous voices and the strumming of a guitar. It was The Coffeehouse in its newest incarnation: the folk gathering. Dunsterites collected like dustballs in the Junior Common Room, blowing onto the minimalist couches, blowing off into the night. But while they were present in a room colored by the dimmed moose-head chandeliers and cloaked by student art reminiscent of one's fifth-grade painting class, they experienced voices untainted by recording...
...when Clinton said, "Our job is to give people the tools to make the most of their own lives," the echo was distinctive. He was exactly where he had been four years before, when, speaking equally of rights and responsibilities, he seemed to realize instinctively that voters wanted a minimalist but compassionate national government. So Clinton went forward by reaching back to the preliberal American tradition that sought to empower citizens with programs like the G.I. Bill, the Homestead Act and Land Grant colleges...
DIED. SAUL BASS, 75, graphic designer who turned opening-credit sequences in movies into brilliant minimalist films; of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; in Los Angeles...
...from Luke and Matthew, for instance, that did not reflect the earlier written Mark but corresponded to one another were ascribed to a document known as Q, a bare-bones collection of sayings. In the 1980s, radicals took a large step farther. They suggested that only Q and similarly minimalist early documents, real and notional, might constitute authentic reporting; the rest of the Gospels was mostly tacked-on religious revisionism...