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...present based on first principles. Kahn's use of brickwork, often stretched in warm massive curves, goes back to medieval Siena. The immense cylinders, arcs and courts at Dacca were inspired by the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. At times, Kahn's forms possess a superb and primal practicality. The Ahmedabad dormitories, for instance, with their stairs set in a thick vertical silo flanked on either side by dark openings, are both a celebration of the sun and a defense against it. Structure is to architectural history as history is to instinct. The unique power of Kahn...
...that shot whipped cream over the first ten or so rows of the orchestra, and others too humerous to mention. In 1968, IT WAS CALLED SOCIAL SATIRE. But times have changed, and Alice Cooper is now "the droog as cult-idol." And his stage act is called "ominous, overwhelming, primal...
...bleak altar half hidden by incense smoke holds down the front of the stage. Shaman figures appear, chanting to a kind of voodoo drumbeat. On the altar, the body of a child is laid. The darkness is pierced by a primal scream. A priest plunges his hand into the human sacrifice and lifts out the heart, thrusting it, like a savage challenge, toward the civilized middle-class audience at Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater...
...musical genius. His genius aside. Clapton was too humble to be flash. Alice Cooper and Ian Anderson? Theatrics. David Bowie and Rod Stewart? Rock star trips. Steve Marriott? Punk arrogance, and Peter Townshend, for all his onstage pyrotechnics, has been sneaky serious ever since perfect placement of that primal teenage stutter on "My Generation...
GENTRY PARTICIPATES ENTHUSTASTICALLY, but fears Medlock's animal instincts: Lewis likes situations which demand primal confrontations between man and nature and man and his fellow, which pose mere survival as the only goal, and demand the urgent extension of all human powers save moral sense. And as murder adds to murder and natural injuries multiply, as Bobby is buggered and Drew drowned. Ed's fears are justified...