Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week, television's educational network, now known as the Public Broadcasting Service, found a way for the first time to reach a significant national audience in prime evening hours: it bought $650,000 worth of promotion spots on the three commercial networks. As a part of its nouveau big-league image, PBS grandiloquently billed itself as the "New Face of Television" and commissioned an expensive-looking logo with an anthropomorphic P-a sort of CBS eye with a brain...
...inconsistently wobbles between crude parody-guests at the party flounce offstage in a way that was clearly meant to be amusing-and lush sentimentalism. The four lithe male dancers who play the diva's lovers are coyly dressed in skintight body stockings and continually swirl enormous Art Nouveau capes about themselves like pretend matadors at a gay beach...
...floor of a loft building overlooking Manhattan's East River. The loft is owned by a retailer of garden furniture who stores his surplus on the roof. There, Johansen entertains in a boneyard of leafy wrought-iron love seats, rusty trellises, cast-lead nymphs and salvaged Art Nouveau birdbaths. In those startling surroundings he looks for all the world like a Viking who has strayed onto the set of an unfinished Cocteau movie...
...selected a flower as a motif and set his figures against a whole screen of them, the petals interlocking with reverse shapes of gold leaf, was a master stroke of decorative invention that seems both to look back to Moorish tile work and predict art nouveau...
THERE'S an element of tyranny involved in the "Theater Two" performance of the Orson Welles' new live show. It's the kind of tyranny you'd expect in modern "audience involvement" theater productions, but it's strangely out of place here in this mediocre, nouveau-vaudeville entertainment...