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MINIMALISM is the reduction to the essential. In theatre, the minimalist sifts through the rubbish heap of human existence, grabbing out the sparse edible pieces and tossing the rest back into the pile to rot. These few scraps, rare moments when people step out of their well-worn, meaningless grooves and follow instincts and impulses represent the minimalist thesis that most lives reduce to a few short intense moments. Gripping the production of David Mamet's Reunion tightly as a pack of howling canines chasing an axe murderer, director Sam Samuels and actors Alice Brown and Ralph Zito prove, with...
James Fenton, drama critic of the Sunday Times, called the play "a nauseating load of rubbish," and yearned for the resignation of National Theater Director Peter Hall, who steadfastly stood by Brenton and the production. Playwright Edward Bond weighed in with a defense so oblique that he never mentioned the play by name. He did, however, call for the resignation of Fenton, while John Osborne, who has had his own wrangles with the censor, addressed a sally to the Guardian: "Sir-I don't go to the theater to see a lot of buggery. We get quite enough...
...will begin only if Valerie Talmege, state archaeologist, considers the site to be archaeologically valuable. Rubbish trucked in from other areas to the dump site may cause problems in determining the origins of artifacts from the site. Talmege said last week, adding that this could be a reason for her not to approve...
...platoon of KGB agents with bulldozers, dump trucks and water cannon. The secret policemen were disguised as civilians doing volunteer work on the abandoned site. As the spectators peered at the paintings and a few Western reporters clicked their cameras, the agents attacked, flinging the canvases into rubbish trucks. Then the bulldozers and water cannon moved in, grinding over fallen works and chasing the drenched artists from the site...
Noguchi's work, in its appeal to ancient and immutable archetypes of experience projected through an extremely refined (but never precious) taste, has always possessed a bracing clarity, a power to rid the mind of its daily rubbish and replace the clutter with a strictness of feeling released by apparently simple objects. Noguchi is 75, and at present three exhibitions in Manhattan celebrate his anniversary: a show of his theater and public-space designs at the Whitney Museum, a group of "landscape tables" at the Andre Emmerich Gallery and a number of smaller stone pieces at the Pace Gallery...