Word: rotundas
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...talents are wasted. Grey is given only one dance, which he executes with goat-footed guile, while Reinking courses across the stage like a thoroughbred in the stretch. The music races toward oblivion rather than anyone's ears. Rouben Ter-Arutunian's majestic scenery features a columned, rotunda-like set with a cascade of steps. This forces Onna White to choreograph dances in which the chorus troops trippingly, and repeatedly, up and down...
Shock Waves. The first warning of the impending tragedy came at 8:11 p.m., when an Irish-accented male voice telephoned the Birmingham Post: "There is a bomb planted at the rotunda [a 17-story office block]; there is a bomb planted in New Street in the tax office." The warning was instantly passed on to the police, and patrol cars raced to the area. A quick check at the tax office revealed nothing. Moments later, at 8:20 p.m., a vicious explosion ripped through the Mulberry Bush, a pub beneath the rotunda that was jammed mostly with young people...
...Tlingit art was infiltrated by white gold-seekers. That glaring Thunderbird and his ilk must have scared a good number of interloping foreigners back to safety and Seattle. But that glorious beast has been toned down enough by the 19th century classicism of the MFA rotunda to loose this power. On the whole, it's a good thing. People should not be scared away from this show...
...Galiber had been well known in New York ever since he was co-captain of the 1950 City College basketball team that won two national tournaments. Two weeks ago, as some 75 friends and relatives of the nominee gathered happily at the city hall rotunda for the swearing-in, a police guard entered the room and announced tersely: "The ceremony is canceled." Reason: Beame had just learned of an alleged $2,050 irregularity in Galiber's use of funds in an unsuccessful 1973 primary campaign for comptroller. Galiber denied any wrongdoing, but he removed himself from consideration...
...design. But on the large scale, all this is lost. Apart from the Houston Astrodome, one could barely imagine a less sympathetic space for showing art than Mies' vast curving hall, longer than a football field and 22 ft. high. "It's like trying to make the rotunda at the National Gallery into an intimate space," says E.R. Carmean, the museum's curator of 20th century...