Word: primal
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When asked if he wanted to take part in Primal Scream, Wood said he would like to, but unfortunately he was leaving Sunday afternoon. The audience let out a collective sigh and loud screams of “we can do it early,” and “let’s do it now” were heard...
...croc breeding season. Rick leads us on a 3-km walk to nearby Gubara Falls and the still waters of a shady rain-forest pool. There's not a crocodile in sight, but there are enough croc-resembling logs floating downstream to spark the occasional frisson of primal fear...
...enact the myths of Ovid. There's Phaeton and his chariot; Midas (in the chair) and his daughter; Orpheus and his underworld voyage. Writer-director Mary Zimmerman's lovely, deeply affecting work (an off-Broadway hit moving to Broadway in March) recaptures the primal allure of the theater--it's fake; isn't it wonderful? Using stage devices that delight with their low-tech ingenuity and a text that modernizes without patronizing, it shows that theater can provide not just escape but sometimes a glimpse of the divine...
...version of which ran on MTV, barely mentioned the product, except for a flash of the swoosh logo. Instead, against a spare backdrop, they showed expert dribblers dexterously pounding basketballs and executing trick maneuvers. Call it basketballet. The squeak of their soles and the thump of rubber provided a primal, trance-inducing soundtrack (with some help from hip-hop legend Afrika Bambaataa). The message: Sport is music. Sport is dance. Sport is art. And so was this...
...play, she stumbled on a local summer-theater troupe rehearsing A Midsummer Night's Dream. "I knew they were pretending. I wasn't fooled," she says. "But it was the act of pretending and the fact that adults were pretending that was stunning to me. I call that my primal scene...