Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PERFORMANCE May 2 presented some shorter, more sketchy student works. "American Gothic" choreographed and danced by Arthur Bridgman and Eugenie Doyle doesn't quite stare at us with the starkness of Grant Wood's painting of an American couple--man holding pitch fork and woman wearing granny glasses and tight hairdo--but captures rather a younger spirit in this pas de deux of a couple, whether American or Gothic we can't tell. What the dancers retain is the constant look, that stare that the painting gives to the audience; this time the stare is primarily between the couple...
...Watercolor came fully into its own as a medium two centuries later-through nature rather than culture. The two great themes of English art in the 18th and 19th centuries were antiquity and landscape. Both necessitated some form of travel-either taking the road to Rome or making the shorter trip into the English countryside, with painting kit. Oil paint in tubes made Impressionism possible, but that sort of packaging did not exist in the 18th century. Lugging oils through the vales of Kent or the gorges of Switzerland was messy, and watercolor-carried dry, in little pans...
This week the Duffy message goes out on two lines. Along with three novelists and a fellow critic, she is on the jury scheduled to announce the National Book Award for fiction. Three of her shorter than usual reviews-of Hugh Nissenson's In the Reign of Peace, Antonio Callado's Don Juan's Bar and The Midnight Raymond Chandler-appear in our current issue's "Spring Cleaning" feature. In recent weeks she has also reviewed The Friends of Eddie Coyle, by George V. Higgins, and All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers, by Larry...
Grandfather's Gifts by contrast is a lighter, shorter song about childhood memories. The melody laid down by the guitars tinkles like a child's music box, placing one in the fanciful atmosphere of early youth. The song is affectionately nostalgic but also reveals how we still live in the fairy tales of our youth as adults...
...further disparity in the number of events in each sport open to the sexes. In track and field, for instance, there are 24 events for men, only 14 for women (including two new events-the 1,500-meter run and 1,600-meter relay). Women used to get even shorter shrift. None were allowed to compete in anything at the first modern games in 1896. At the first ancient games, in Greece in 776 B.C., women were barred even as spectators. Those caught seeking furtive glimpses took part in an unofficial event: they were taken...