Word: neon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called the Engineer (Jonathan Pryce) and a woman of unquenchable faith and optimism called Kim (Lea Salonga) -- the narrative fuses a crude soap-opera plot with subtle satire of relations between capitalism and the Third World. Big in cast (45), emotion and physical sweep, the story ranges from the neon vice bars of Saigon and Bangkok to the red- bannered propaganda parades and squalid re-education camps of the Hanoi regime. It embraces chaste Asian weddings and bawdy Yankee beauty contests, a crooning anthem to a glistening American automobile and an austere hymn to a mammoth statue...
Bean's has moved far from its roots when it just sold boots, tents, canoes and Dickies. The store has undergone several renovations making it larger and more department store-esque with each new coat of paint. But behind the neon and the New York tourists, Bean's still stocks canoes, tents and fishing tackle...
Stussy's twist can mean embroidered Masai warrior shields in neon colors on a high school letter jacket or baggy jerseys bearing electric-haired African- warrior logos. Stussy has caught on big with musicians ranging from Public Enemy to Madonna. Next he hopes to get a bit more formal. Says his partner: "Shawn has always wanted to be like Armani...
...rest of the photography ranged from middling to poor and was only occasionally interrupted by another medium. Most notable among the other pieces exhibited were the paintings by David Gammons. The series of three oil paintings titled "Haywire" was bold in its colors and forms. The striking neon backgrounds, particularly in the second and third pieces, were a welcome contrast to the ubiquitous black and white. Gammons' backgrounds also enlivened the paintings themselves by creating dramatic tension between their alarming hues and the solid lines of the free floating forms. "Haywire" was commendable and the most inspired work Gammons...
...onlookers, Casnoff suffered only superficial injuries and took just one day off before resuming previews for this week's opening. Some of the metaphysically inclined credited his survival to the producers' having brought in five Shinto priests from Japan, before performances started, to purify the Marquis Theater amid the neon honky-tonk of Times Square. Skeptics complained that the blessing should have averted the freak accident altogether...