Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game. Fired within three years, Robinson reappeared in San Francisco, where in 1982 he managed the languorous Giants into the last week of a pennant race. This time, snatching an occasional jersey in anger, he lasted only slightly longer. The word was that Robinson could not communicate with the modern ballplayers. "I communicate with them," he said. "I just tell them things they don't want to hear." The whispers were that he was especially harsh with the blacks...
Katharine Dickson is the daughter of Harry Ellis Dickson, a former violinist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the retired associate director of the Boston Pops. Her home was a lively one, with musicians and artists as frequent guests. At an early age she took up modern dance, and later became a teacher of it. Her nickname comes from her mother's friend, the vivacious actress Kitty Carlisle Hart...
...modern film style, Aria blends two old forms: classical opera and the silent film. Both discovered unique languages to convey emotions; both eschewed irony for intensity; both declined in the 1920s -- opera with Puccini's death, silent movies with the coming of sound. So a headlong romantic like Ken Russell will embrace opera on film like a first, lost love. For him, opera is performed at peak volume because the feelings it surveys are big and deep. Matters of lust and death are too important to be spoken; they must be sung, shouted, thundered, wept -- and shown, in all their...
Superstitious theater folk call it "the Scottish play." For them, merely to speak its name is to invite worse agonies than any conjured from eye of newt and toe of frog. More rational observers, too, view Macbeth as fraught with difficulties. Its plot cannot work unless skeptical modern audiences will believe in witches and the supernatural. The central couple kill in unforeshadowed haste and repent in wearisome leisure. As a tyrant, Macbeth seems a paranoiac cross between Herod, slaughtering a legion of innocents to be sure he got the right one, and the pathetic people who kill entire families...
...certainly among the more gifted American artists of his generation. But this show's catalog hums with inflated comparisons and claims. "He seems formed in the Manet mold," writes one contributor, Ian Dunlop, adducing by way of proof that Sultan, like the great Edouard, is ambitious, paints images from "modern life," looks at old master paintings, etc. Sultan does have a crush on Manet; a small still life with asparagus pays homage to Manet's famous single asparagus stalk, and a little detail of masts and sails in Manet's Moonlight over Boulogne Harbor, 1869, is blown...