Word: performancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ramayana, which opened six years ago as one of Manhattan's few Indonesian restaurants, boasts a striking decor: a pedicab parked in the lobby, menus bound in batik, hostesses in flowing Indonesian gowns. At night, when native dancers perform, the restaurant's prices are high, but the buffet lunch is a bargain: for $5.50, guests can take their pick of dozens of spicy (skewered beef) or sweet (banana soup) dishes. For some executives from nearby oil-company offices, however, the food must have a bitter taste these days. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the restaurant...
...second night, when choreographer Lar Lubovitch jumped forward to acknowledge the applause of his own company, did I realize who he was: that one dancer who'd kept so much to himself in the background. Lubovitch isn't a star. Unlike Martha Graham, for instance, his presence as a performer doesn't constitute the driving force of his work. Yet his presence as maker of the dance is much in evidence onstage. Not that he puts choreographic structure itself on show; his forms are too well-crafted to be immediately visible. Rather, his is the sort of choreography that lets...
Kirkland House Music Society--Violinist Lynn Chang and pianist Richard Kogan perform Bach's Unaccompanied Sonata in A minor for violin, Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 3, and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata for violin and piano. Free. Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...Tommy opened in New York, Zarem rented the 57th Street subway station and invited 700 funky-chic guests for a late-night dinner dance in the tubes. To hype The Ritz, a comedy set in a gay bathhouse, he took over the Four Seasons Restaurant and had the band perform from the pool. For Lucky Lady, a romantic adventure about the Prohibition era, Zarem turned the "21" Club into a 1920s speakeasy and invited 650 first-nighters to feast. The party cost 20th Century-Fox $25,000, but Zarem wasn't there to raise a glass. One night earlier...
Some will take the narrator's wry self-reading at face value and ignore him for writers who practice legerdemain less self-consciously. Yet Calvino's specialability is to perform magic by ex posing it. At first, the patent artifice of The Castle of Crossed Destinies demands disbelief. By the end, an odd conviction displaces skepticism: maybe life really is all in the cards...