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...this were not enough for the comparison shoppers, the troupes presented duplicate performances of other works as well. Notably, there was Igor Stravinsky's ritualistic mosaic of a Russian peasant wedding, Les Noces, which the Royal Ballet gave earlier in the for mal, restrained version by Bronislava Nijinska. Last week the Ballet Theater showed off Jerome Robbins' dazzling choreography for it in a vigorous, soulful ensemble tour de force. The Americans also drew 17 curtain calls when they unveiled Eliot Feld's Harbinger, a lively and neatly dovetailed abstraction set to Prokofiev's Fifth Piano Concerto...
Made in Italy is a mosaic of ironic episodes that attempts to provide a portrait of modern Italy. A good many of the scenes are merely blackout sketches, some as brief as a minute: a beautiful girl stares wistfully at a bridal gown in a shop window; the camera pulls back to show her nun's habit. A group of starving peasants gaze at a wall poster reading "Help India." An inquiring reporter asks a man without TV what he does to amuse himself...
...included only two native Canadians, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Paul-Émile Borduas. France obliged with 28 pieces, West Germany with twelve, Japan with ten, Britain with 14, The Netherlands with eight. But some of the most striking contributions came in the smallest shiploads: Tunisia sent a single Roman mosaic floor, Norway two superb canvases by Edvard Munch, Czechoslovakia a single Kokoschka, The Charles Bridge...
...television presents a mosaic of thousands of tiny dots. To "see" the image on the screen, the viewer must participate, he must use his entire nervous system, and not just his eyes and ears, to fill in the spaces between those little dots. A child raised on television has entirely different techniques of sense-perception from a book-age child, and these differences are producing the West's most significant revolution since Gutenberg...
...that the significance of the medium derives not from what it says, but from how it says it. In McLuhan's words, the medium is the message. And the electronic message is turning everything upside down. When we relied on our eyes we needed straight lines. But the television mosaic has destroyed the line and replaced it with the pattern. All of our lines are doomed. The book-age line on the backs of women's stockings has already disappeared because of television. Yet until recently, even in the face of such total upheaval, we refused to study television...