Word: mythic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Accordingly, "Power, Pleasure and Pain" features as wide variety of approaches to female subjects, Images of empowerment include Nancy Spero's "To the Revolution: VII," which represents vigorous female archetypes and mythic goddesses joining contemporary figures moving toward an unseen goal, as well as Denise Carbone's "Genitalia Print," which is juxtaposed with a print of the artist's face...
History is at the heart of The America Play, currently at the Hasty Pudding Theatre as part of the American Repertory theatre's NewStages series. Suzan-Lori Parks' intriguing new work considers the mythic legacy of Lincoln for Blacks. Lincoln's emancipation allowed the previously enslaved to participate actively, for the first time, in fashioning the national story, the life of the nation, Lincoln thus becomes the founding father of a truly free and democratic America: moving the founding of America to the advent of emancipation is the originary point for this play about "reconstructed historicities...
...attention because's Monroe's baffled abjection and Beckett's quiet endurance correspond to states of mind familiar enough to most people. And the affectless pictures of oil-rig workers and cowboys and drifters that Avedon made in the western U.S., a place that still holds some of its mythic power as a land of opportunity, are a powerful representation of everyone's worst fears of disappointment...
...debate that has now assumed mythic proportions, dwarf-slayer Al Gore routed Perot, diminishing his opponent's credibility by exposing the terrible hollowness at his core. While this may have negative repercussions for the 1996 election (Perot supporters tend to be disenchanted Republicans), Gore's performance enhanced his stature in Washington immeasurably...
...that westerns must, or necessarily should, be historically precise. The Old West provides a mythic setting whose power is not dependent on its faithfulness to fact. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman focuses on a female doctor (Jane Seymour) who moves to a Colorado town and adopts three orphaned children. Her weekly crusades for everything from environmental protection to gun control seem laughably anachronistic, but the show provides a bucolic backdrop for an exploration of social, ethical and family issues...