Word: paints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peeling gold paint and rows of bare bulbs seem to portend a long evening at the Emerson Majestic Theater. Like the theater's facade, much of Leonard Bernstein's music has not weathered the thirty-odd years since its premiere as well as it might. But the verve and slick packaging of the Boston Lyric's production keep the show afloat, and prove that the company can hold its own in the world of American musical theater...
...Boston Lyric's latest operatic offering is "operatic" only in that it is as long as Wagner and as contrived as any opera plot. The cast's energetic efforts and the show's polished appearance (forget about the bare bulbs and peeling paint) redeem the score's failings...
Since Picasso's Guernica, few artists had attempted historical commentary. Robert Rauschenberg did in his silkscreen paintings of the early '60s, and so did James Rosenquist with big quasi-dioramas like The F-111, his reflection on the Vietnam War. Kitaj differs from both, for he wanted to paint his images all the way through, not transfer them out of mass media. It's odd that in the midst of all the talk about "appropriation" that went on through the '80s and into the '90s, Kitaj's name so seldom came up in New York: for this is a painter...
...remainders in the Republicans' feeble team of candidates, many are marked by public distaste. Against the creeping slime of Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) or the downright meanness of Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kans.), Clinton could paint himself as the nice guy, the family friend. Against vacuous Gov. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.) or inexperienced Gov. Christine Whitman (R-N.J.), Clinton could calmly dismantle their arguments in every debate. But who knows? As the president who lost Congress in 1994 and lost on health care, Clinton qualifies for `damaged goods' status...
...within an already unresponsive bureaucracy. Regulations are routinely ignored. Smuggling and prostitution, once confined to Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, are rampant. Consider Hanoi's top-draw weekend entertainment event: midnight motorcycle races through the streets. When police showed up at 3 a.m. on Christmas Day with paint guns and electric batons to put an end to a big race, the crowd of several thousand threw stones at their jeeps...