Word: realm
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...changed everything. Before ELIA KAZAN, movie and stage acting occupied a realm of easy glamour. Actors prized articulation; even street-bred stars like Cagney and Stanwyck spoke with a cutting efficiency. But with A Streetcar Named Desire, the Tennessee Williams play Kazan directed on Broadway in 1947 and filmed in 1951, pop culture was yanked into real life...
...have quickly grown familiar and inadequate. A new play like Jonathan Bell's Portraits, composed of monologues by fictional people touched by 9/11 in various ways (including another philandering husband), already feels dated. So post-9/11 plays are moving on, trying to lift the event into a new realm, transforming it with allegory and metaphysics. But in grasping at grandiosity, the newest generation of post-9/11 plays is losing a grip on any feeling for the concrete, recognizable ways that real human beings reacted to the tragedy...
...agree agree agree? Let's concede that the place could use a few more outdoor cafes and trees. But outside of Central Park, Rockefeller Center is the handsomest great space in New York City and, for that matter, in the U.S. In an era when the public realm barely gets even lip service anymore, it is proof that the profit motive and the general good can coexist, that beauty can lie down with the beast and give birth to grandeur, civility and ordinary sunlit life...
...Putin initiated the policy review last December, soon after Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater; after a three-day siege, 129 died as Russian special forces used a sedative gas to storm the building. Ivanov now says it would be "irresponsible to confine the armed forces' prerogatives to the realm of external operations," adding that - as Chechnya proves - it's impossible to separate foreign and domestic threats. He also said the Russian military must be prepared to fight "two conflicts of any type" simultaneously, as well as carry out peacekeeping operations anywhere in the world. That's a tall order...
...jack-of-all-trades - poet, playwright, novelist, artist, designer, filmmaker and quintessential Parisian socialite - whose career covered the decades from 1909 to 1963. Jean Cocteau, Spanning the Century, which opened last week and runs until Jan. 5 before moving to Montreal, is, like the man, somewhere in the surrealist realm of wretched excess, offering more than 700 drawings, photographs, collages, film clips, set and costume designs, letters, manuscripts and bits of memorabilia. There are portraits of Cocteau by Jacques-Emile Blanche, Man Ray, Picasso and Andy Warhol, and portraits by Cocteau of Modigliani, Picasso and Kisling, each done...