Word: rope
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...International Peace Games Festival will represent the culmination of the "peace" curriculum by having the young people present their peace games to one another. We will sponsor cooperative activities such as dancing, singing and jumping rope...
...were alive. We gaze at their frail icons with reverence -- the replays of French Cubism with sturgeons, Cyrillic letters and Tolstoyan beards playing hide-and-seek among their facets; the posters exhorting us to "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge"; the constructions of workers' materials like tin and rope and painted wood; the disembodied black and red squares of now cracking paint. French gallerygoers 100 years ago never felt like this about the art of the French Revolution. Jacques-Louis David looked old-fashioned by then, whereas Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Liubov Popova...
...that lead turned into a rope around the Crimson's neck...
...fire of its own accord, blowing the screens to shreds; we stand, as the title says, On the Threshold of Liberty. Some of Magritte's images have taken on, with time, a truly prophetic aura. One of these is Eternity (1935). Three pedestals in a museum, with a red rope stretched in front of them. On the left one, a medieval head of Christ. On the right, a head of Dante. In the center, a block of butter. A jab at the contented Belgian stomach, 60 years ago; but today you can't help thinking of the lumps...
...excellent and versatile acting is the only thing that makes this performance worth watching. David Travis perfectly captures the body language and tone of voice of a little girl who loves obscene jump-rope rhymes and messy ice cream pops. John Knepper is impressive as the vacant-eyed but sly Joshua and then as Edward's swaggering, promiscuous lover Jerry. The rest of the cast also turns in a fine performance...