Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newspapers, magazines and television are gatekeepers for those who would be well known, at first to be courted, perhaps later to be disdained. Celebrityhood is our form of aristocracy, but it does not carry, as aristocracy does, the right to keep out of sight. Once a person becomes an object of public curiosity, behavior becomes public too. Athletes and Hollywood dolls who begin as role models of success can become, with drugs and dissipation, role models of a different kind, lessons in failure. Less flamboyant celebrities have another worry: that they will cease to be news...
Least Enchanted Ten Weeks: The Broadway revival of Private Lives, in which Resistible Force Richard Burton met Immovable Object Elizabeth Taylor, and the play sank in a wave of critical catcalls...
...props that get to Gerald Casale, co-founder and video director of Devo, one of the first and funniest of new-wave video bands. "Directors take these songs by groups who have nothing to say, and try to contrive a handle by repeatedly using an object and implying it is some kind of totem. The number of girls on MTV picking up wine glasses and lockets and earrings and breaking them or stepping on them with high heels cannot be believed...
...defects; that thereafter she began to suffer from radioactive contamination, which may have been caused by someone in the company, but could possibly have been self-induced; that on the night of Nov. 13,1974, she lost control of her car and crashed into a wall (the only concrete object in this case) with instantly fatal results...
...Hungarian-born Marton, too, is electrifying audiences worldwide. Last month in the Opera Company of Boston's Turandot, she gave a regal account of Puccini's Chinese ice princess that could serve as an object lesson in how the role should be sung. Bringing the full weight of her massive voice to bear on the torturous part, Marton demolished its fearsome technical difficulties while touchingly developing the heroine from a frigid despot into a tender, vulnerable woman. This week at the Met she takes on another of opera's superwomen, Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelia...