Word: restorationism
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The museum was built in the Louvre's Pavillon de Marsan, which was first finished in 1666, burned during the Paris Commune of 1871 and left largely unoccupied since its restoration was completed in 1905. When Decorator Jacques Grange first inspected the premises in 1982, he found himself inside a...
This savagely funny scene, as momentarily plausible onstage as it is < preposterous in the retelling, is the central event of Edward Bond's Restoration, a stunning leftist anthem masquerading as a literary curiosity. The play marries the style of, say, Congreve or Farquhar with that of Bertolt Brecht: it blends...
Until now. Shepard, 42, last week unveiled A Lie of the Mind, the newest, longest (3 hours 45 minutes) and best of his 40-odd plays. Staged off-Broadway by the playwright, Lie superficially resembles yet another Shepardian slice of life among borderline psychotics of the underclass. It opens with...
Other resource restorers have rebuilt salt marshes by planting native vegetation and fought to save redwood forests by buying land and replanting damaged stands of trees. While the preservation of redwood forests is an aesthetic, though not unimportant, victory, the reintroduction of salt marshes on the overpopulated and overused Atlantic...
Berger is the last to expect the sort of perfect restoration in his utopian vision. His book presents hope with a large dose of very guarded expectations. Yet the people he describes have started down the right road. As Congressman Udall declares at the end of his forward: "Their stories...