Word: saucer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hung in the first thread of twilight, are deserted. Suddenly Seymour Slive, the museum's new director, throws himself into an exhibit just hung for a course in 18th-century French art. He stalks backwards, arms out-flung, palms raised, beckoning. "Look at this picture," he commands, his bulging, saucer eyes electric under the flu's rheumy glaze. "It's a wreck, a total wreck. But I think some of its qualities can still be appreciated, that I can help in our teaching." Slive is right. The canvas is a patchwork of flaking paint, but it's still--well--pleasing...
...taken from the mine was a copper-rich material called malachite. It was worked free with stone hammers and bronze chisels, crushed into small pieces and placed in large, saucer-shaped pits. When winter rain flooded the pits, the lighter malachite swirled to the surface and could be more readily separated from the other rock. Half a mile away there were 13 furnaces, where the Bronze Age metallurgists smelted the ore, using iron as a flux (a substance that combines with impurities, forming a molten mix that can be easily removed). Bronze Age miners were able to produce...
...musician to set the tone of the place. One of the classical pianists's plaintive pieces made a sin out of slamming a cup into its saucer, while a less sedate jazz pianist encouraged quiet voice-overs by banging out some irreverent jazz tunes...
...money would go to Harvard. I like to think of her expression as she stuck a portrait of her husband in a corner on top of a cabinet and of Derek Bok's as, on a visit to the museum, he might idly contemplate switching a saucer...
...first half of the play is practically a single speech an hour long. Teresa, very well played by Amy Moss, pours out the story of her life, sloppily, like soup overflowing a saucer--her nightmares, unhappy childhood, financial problems, and unrequited love for her husband. "Is all this boring you?" she asks Elena (Anne Singer)--a risky suggestion for an author to make to an audience when presenting this kind of familiar material. But Ginzburg carries it off, and instead of sounding like your roommate's version of hell at Harvard, the first act is hypnotic and convincing...