Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With the advent of Internet auction sites, it may seem that traditional auction houses will soon be going the way of the dinosaur. But Skinners Motion Pictures Posters & Ephemera auction on Nov. 20 proved that the traditional auction venue is still popular, and in fact thriving in these modern times...
...week ago, every newly-elected member of the Phoenix, S.K. final club was given a live chicken and instructed by their elders to keep close contact with them while going to classes, going to final club events and so forth. Apparently, most carry the chickens around in boxes that seem to be a little over a foot square. They get jostled around between classes, take up seats (in their boxes) amongst the noisy crowds in the dining halls and are penned-up in student rooms at night (on the floor). They apparently have no time to run free except when...
...dressed in metallic-punk-dominatrix suits, and Gunn, the priest, wears a silver robe. The sense that all dialogue is a voice-over creates the impression that the actors are merely odd configurations of marionettes. In this scene, people have fully transformed into machines. Helen's appeals for mercy seem to be almost rays of light bouncing off the darkened stage, for she is the only lit figure. Suddenly, strobe lights destroy the darkness, and the execution is complete...
...Overall, HMS Pinafore is a delightful production. The cast is full of affable characters who genuinely seem to revel in this trifling and insubstantial world, and the entire production, from bow to stern is infused with a beguiling charm. Any misgivings is ultimately redeemable because the libretto and music are entirely loveable. Besides, with any production that begins with a mandatory rendition of "God Save the Queen", it's very difficult not to have a good time. Only the most miserable curmudgeon won't go home grinning and humming after two delectable hours in this fluffy cotton-candy world...
...first glance, it does not seem as though Richard Artschwagers sculptures and Ross Bleckners paintings belong in the same room. Artschwagers homage to packing crates and Bleckners images of Tetris-like biotic spheres do not look remotely alike or seem to address similar issues. It becomes apparent after a brief spin around the ground floor of the Carpenter Center that it is precisely in this unlikely juxtaposition that the interest of this exhibition lies. This contrast illuminates aspects of each artists work that would otherwise be overlooked...