Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work first from a purely structural standpoint, where I'm really just working on shape.....Then, from that shape, I begin to build motive. After that, I work it to the music to find out how it correlates.....Then the combination of the shape, emotional suggestion and musical correlation is the finished phrase...
...Whirligogs," an early work, exhibits the same concerns. Lubovitch, exploring the ways shape and emotional suggestion interrelate, relies on representational gesture just verging on the abstract. Accompanied by Berio's voice collage "Sinfonia," black-hooded dancers appear, then a man and woman in bared dress. The hooded dancers return unmasked, later reappearing disguised, only to toss their masks defiantly to the side, and then again appear as dark spirits surrounding and overwhelming the lovers. Lubovitch uses his costume flexibly, allowing the masks to suggest rather than to define possibilities. He realizes the unanticipated. As a voice in flat monotone recites...
...hoping to find a few students in Soc Sci 174 who will help beat some of my ideas into better shape for the diplomats and military officers in Vienna. It is not a course in what to say about a conflict but on how to do something about it," Fisher said yesterday...
...close of the Administration's first full week in power, the vaguely defined "new spirit" that Carter had invoked in his Inaugural Address was already beginning to take shape-and not only at banquets. After a transition period that had seemed slow paced and sometimes even wandering in its focus, the new President and his mixed team of Georgia chums and Washington veterans opened for business with considerable flair. Carter obviously meant it when he said during his campaign that he would be a "strong, independent and aggressive President." The new regime in its very first days not only...
...Carter's assistant for special-interest groups. Formerly vice mayor of Rochester, she is responsible for keeping Carter in touch with the people. Says she: "I am his ears, his eyes, his window." She is the only Northerner and the only outspoken liberal at Lipshutz's daily shape...