Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake the world with witty satire. Once in the underworld Dionysus realizes that the true artist. Aeschylus, can contribute much more passion and poetry than the humorist and decides that he will save the world by returning this writer to life. The modernized version replaces Euripides with George Bernard Shaw, and Aeschylus with William Shakespeare. But Sheevelove sticks closely to the rest of Aristophanes' script; even the scatological jokes and invocations to the muses live in the actors' exclamations. As in the original, the responsibility of poets and the need for art are stressed, but never do these morals clash...
Ward 7, Precinct 1--Residents of graduate dorms--Ames Hall, Child Hall, Dane Hall, Holmes Hall, Perkins Hall, Richard Hall, Shaw Hall, Story Hall and Wyeth Hall--vote at the Agassiz Elementary School at the corner of Sacramento and Oxford Streets...
...grew more rambunctious in high school-"spraying my hair orange and getting thrown out of movie theaters"-and then, as an acting major at S.M.U., discovered classical drama. Reading Chekhov, Beckett, Shaw and King Lear, "the veils of the mind lifted," she says. "This was alive theater, someone bringing you in touch with a world you hadn't understood before." Once in Los Angeles, she began writing, "almost for pure sanity's sake. I'm like a child when I write, taking chances, never thinking in terms of logic or reviews. I just go with what...
...same pitch of high manneristic skill can be seen, though used to wholly variant ends, in the work of Richard Shaw, 40; drawing from the American trompe 1'oeil tradition begun in the 19th century by Peto and Harnett, Shaw casts objects-playing cards, books, tin cans, ax handles-in porcelain and then glazes them into a more than photographic accuracy of surface. Sometimes, though not often enough, a flash of real poetry appears in the midst of Shaw's virtuoso pedantry. Moonlight Goose, 1978, with its loving simulations of flaking paint and marbled paper, attains a wistful...
...Shaw added, however, that the American NEA, whose budget was recently cut in half, faces worse fiscal problems. "Mr. Reagan is ahead of Mrs. Thatcher in these things." Shaw said...