Word: playing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That play where everyone cavorts around with their clothes off is supposed to "liberate" our minds or something? Most of our critics and intellectuals have been going around with their minds unbuttoned for some time. These naive pundits should take Dr. Freud's advice to Lorelei Lee (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, by Anita Loos). He told her to cultivate a few inhibitions and get some sleep...
...Bucharest, a languid and Latinate city, will be the scene of a major development in East-West relations. It will become the first Communist capital ever to play host to an American President. The Rumanian capital is already busy getting ready for the 20-hour state visit. The Rumanian army band must learn to play The Star-Spangled Banner, a notoriously difficult capitalist number...
...that both NATO and the Warsaw Pact should be dismantled simultaneously as a major move toward breaking down the barriers between the East and West blocs. Discreetly, he may also sound out the President on what U.S. reaction might be if the Russians ever tried a Czechoslovak-style power play against Rumania...
...people stand in line when their chances of getting to see a hit movie or play are obviously hopeless...
From a variety of materials, Duchamp created a surprising wedding of illusion and reality. He used pigskin for the girl, as well as a blonde wig, picked up twigs and leaves on forays into the countryside. The landscape is painted, but the waterfall was created by a play of lights. "He wanted to make a direct statement without words," recalls Duchamp's widow. "Something you look at and just feel." The museum permits no photographs; the implications and the richness of innuendo must rest solely in the mind. What has one really seen? Is this a celebration...