Word: performances
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bygone era when Newton could conceive of the solar system as a kind of eternal clockwork, and most people thought of the social system in much the same terms, a favorite toy for grownups was the sort of music box in which tiny lords and ladies, shepherds and shepherdesses perform an elaborate, unchanging dance. Portuguese Author Monteiro has constructed his odd novella of life in modern Lisbon like one of those antique music boxes. The effect is quietly damning. The figures are a rich man, Gonçalo, his empty-headed wife, their idealistic young...
...addition to giving formal concerts, the HRO will divide into ensembles which will perform in schools. At these concerts, members of the orchestra will demonstrate their instruments and allow the children to play them...
...Ohio Gang, he shows how well he can perform without the aid of verbal asides. There his figures act out a silent drama: a two-faced lowlife extends his hands to a sensuous nude as if she were a manicurist, while a wet nurse in open brassiere wraps a ribbon through the girl's hair. Harsh, disjointed architecture unsettles the scene. It is no longer important that Kitaj has combined figures from German and French anatomical discourses with an English pram. For him, this painting conjures up his native state and the curious syndrome in American literature?...
...Colossus of Rhodes, with friends, will perform for the fortunate ticketholders at 8 p.m. Saturday...
...recreational ski equipment -- from poles to parkas--is now American made. No longer must the fashion-conscious snow bunny pay $75 for stretch pants that won't develop baggy knees after one day's wear. American metal skis that, will last for years now cost little more and will perform much better than Austrian woods which are liable to break or warp. In short, the initial investment in ski equipment has been reduced to a reasonable figure in recent years...