Word: reinvented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Space Center, King Lear featuring a Lincoln Continental. (Subject for a future master's thesis: Automotive Metaphor and the Sound of Cultural Collision in the Early Work of Peter Sellars.) Sellars clearly seeks not so much to rejustify all these stage pieces as to re-examine them, even reinvent them, for a contemporary audience. What is up-to-date in The Mikado is timeless, but what is charming is essentially antique, brittle as a piece of porcelain. Porcelain is not the ideal material for broad strokes and bright colors...
...Jonathan Schells of the Left err in presuming an absolute choice between global peace and disarmament on the one hand, and global nuclear holocaust on the other. With the nuclear genie out of the bottle, it is all but impossible to put it back. Mankind cannot hope to "reinvent politics: to reinvent the world," as Schell proposed last year in The Fate of the Earth. National sovereignties are too entrenched and global consensus too elusive for Schell's "utopian vision" to be realized...
...sending the audience out whistling their moral codes, but Lee Kalcheim is an amiable writer with a gift for constructing tight comic spots for Taylor and Charles to battle in and out of. The actress makes a tough lady sympathetic; the actor is a canny counterpuncher. Together they reinvent that splendid theatrical institution, the unhappy marriage, that no playwright looking for laughs should ever put asunder...
More predictably, the right-leaning Wall Street Journal has lambasted Schell as "destructive of serious thought about how to prevent war and control the spread of nuclear arms." Especially ludicrous, the paper says, is his call for "nothing less than to reinvent politics." Cracks the Journal: "Like...
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. Several millenniums after nuclear catastrophe, a group of survivors huddles near "Cambry" (Canterbury) and tries to reinvent the English language and rediscover gunpowder...