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...CONVICTED. TAKAYUKI NOGUCHI, 32, Japanese activist; of helping two North Koreans to flee their country via China; in China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. A district court sentenced Noguchi to eight months in prison, the most severe punishment China has handed down to a Japanese for helping North Koreans defect...
...great sculptor Isamu Noguchi, Glimcher devised a method of covering his stone sculptures with a fine layer of water, “so that it looked just like glass,” as he recalled wistfully...
...great sculptor Isamu Noguchi, Glimcher figured out a way of covering his stone sculptures with a fine layer of water, “so that it looked just like glass,” he recalled wistfully...
...Yeremin's hands, Ivanov on stage becomes as lush as Dr. Zhivago on film. The degree of unity that Yeremin orchestrates on a sensory level is downright astonishing. Scott Bradley's sets are a work of art in themselves, something of a cross between installation art and Isamu Noguchi's minimalist sets for the New York City Ballet. Add to that the light design of John Ambrosone, for whom no slant of light or subtlety of shading is unattainable, and the stoic formalism of Catherine Zuber's costumes, which make Chekov's rural social philosophers seem as though they could...
Graham came decisively into her own in the '40s, turning out in rapid succession the decade-long series of angst-ridden dance dramas--enacted on symbol-strewn sets designed by the sculptor Isamu Noguchi and accompanied by scores commissioned from such noted composers as Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber--on which her reputation now chiefly rests. Cave of the Heart (1946), one of her many modern recastings of ancient Greek myth, contains a horrific solo in which the hate-crazed Medea gobbles her own entrails--perhaps Graham's most sensational coup de theatre and one recalled with nightmarish clarity...