Word: pans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the way, Mrs. Crist has also become a feature attraction on NBC-TV's Today show, where, she says, "My criticism comes across more strongly than in print." Last March, she managed to pan three super-spectaculars in one brief appearance: The Greatest Story Ever Told ("A kind of dime-store holy picture"), Lord Jim ("A lot of heavy five-cent philosophy"), and The Sound of Music (she found the children "strictly loathsome...
This is especially true of Stella's works as they evolve from 1959. The contrast between his Die Fahne Hoch (1959) and Ileana Sonnabond (1963) in gallery 11, makes the later work seem dead-pan in comparison to the more obvious monumentality of the earlier one. In time, however, the white lines of the magenta trapezoid come to life...
...lost. In book form, all archy's prose is in lower case (the cockroach typed out his copy by jumping onto the keys, but was not heavy enough to depress the shift lock). Unbroken by capital letters and sparsely punctuated, it reads like a kind of slow, dead-pan monotone and provides the perfect backdrop for the good phrase, the turned cliche, the well-dropped contradiction...
There is nothing dead-pan about Mare Temin's archy; he delivers his lines with velocity, emphasis, and evident feeling. Although there are places where this is appropriate, there are more, particularly in the beginning, where it is not. Because the audience reacts slowly, it misses entirely some of the good moments that hurry past...
With no stage-set, a minimum of props (a couple of wine bottles, and an old bicycle), a maximum of high spirits and a great deal of skill, the Pan-African Student Organization took the stage of the Quincy-Holmes Arts Festival Saturday night to present the comedy "The Trials of Brother Jeroboam" by Wole Soyinka. With the exception of one bit-part, the entire cast was composed of African students now living in the Boston area...