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Michael Schiffer's Enobarbus was monotone but fitfully engaging. His death scene redeemed his absurd flippant, balmy, detachment at the opening. He read every line the same (piano) but it was an agreeable reading. Timothy Clark as Caesar gave disquieting signs of yet another misconceived, automaton, bloodless ruler, but gradually infused this crucial role (for it is a drama of East and West, both imperfectly noble) with the life and subtlety it demands. Clark gave dramatic center to each of his scenes, and so offered the finest performance of the evening...
James Brown's "Red Zip," for example, uses Kenneth Noland's ruler-straight horizontal stripes. The painting concerns itself with color relativity-two burgundy stripes surround a red one, two reds an orange, and two oranges a yellow, reading down the canvas. Alex Packer's "Blues Progression" is a similar investigation of a hue family on a flat plane. His acrylics run from red-violet through aqua. But Packer's three-paneled work attributes more importance to form than does James Brown's-stripes end in curved edges, and three vertical stripes are halved in the last panel, leaving...
...small room of drawings, you see how he plans the canvases, outlining them with a ruler often on graph paper. Using a felt pen he has made some interesting color models, but they lack the power which enormous size blows into them. As you pass a corner along the exhibition, a circle ten feet in diameter faces you from the end of a brief hall. Light colored bands drive in and among each other, breaking and reconnecting around the circle. This pinwheel vision dominates the show...
Ironically, the ruler who was toppled from power appeared more secure than any other government figure in Southeast Asia. Though he is only 47, His Royal Highness Norodom Sihanouk has served as Cambodia's king or chief of state for nearly 30 years. He remains an enormously popular leader among his people-a fact that could still have dramatic results should Sihanouk decide to make a stand against the government leaders who turned on him. Most of all, however, Sihanouk will be remembered as a politician who tried to keep his country out of trouble by sheer grandstanding. Detractors...
...other that they will make a joint complaint. Philips adoptive father finds the group, admonishes his son, then leads everyone to his lavish outdoor banquet. One guest refuses what the others coo over as "an opportunity you don't get very often," and leaves; his departure irks both the ruler and Philip, and after some prodding the entire party sets off with gun and dog to bring him back...