Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter to "My dear Babuji" (the Hindi honorific for a respected elder), Mrs. Gandhi retorted: "It is strange that you should have remained silent all these months," especially when "you were actively and directly associated with every decision." Then, rising from a sickbed, she summoned her Cabinet and other party leaders and extracted from each of them a signed statement of loyalty to herself and a condemnation of Ram. Later, as her anger grew, she denounced Ram as an opportunist and a turncoat, and charged that he was to blame for a recent rise in food prices. "Now that...
Soll subtitled "Clearfield" a "silent dance opera;" avant-garde choreographer Meredith Monk, who appeared at the Loeb last year, uses the same term to describe her art. In Monk's works there seems to exist a deeply-felt controlling image beyond the shifting motifs of the dance surface. I didn't sense any single undertow of meaning in "Clearfield," though perhaps Soll intended one. Rather, it seemed as if the dance began and ended in stillness, its images like whispers heard above a soft drone...
...number of times. Once, in 1959, Lindbergh asked museum officials if he might see the plane alone and startled them when he also requested a ladder. Without a word, he climbed the ladder and lifted himself into the cockpit's wicker seat. In the darkened hall, he sat silent for 40 minutes...
...Along with genuinely useful "urban survival" features, it gives the insecure a superior feeling of being inside, offering them a blend of fact and fantasy. It portrays an unreal stream-of-consumption world whose Gucci'd, Pucci'd denizens glide between Parke-Bernet (the t is not silent) and La Grenouille (the maitre d's name is Jean), send their children to the Dalton School, winter in St. Maarten or Gstaad, summer in the Hamptons, patronize the priciest boutiques but also thriftshop, and know exactly where to find the best buys in catered canapés, scuba...
...even to be able to wear it, you might enjoy a T-Shirt Exposition and Auction at the Museum School, next to the MFA at 230 The Fenway. The T-shirts are painted, printed, stretched, stuffed, stitched, stained, fiberglassed and mounted. The shirts have been on silent auction since January 4 and those bids will close at noon, next Tuesday. Then, Tuesday evening (6:30-8:30 p.m.) at the MFA's lecture hall, the shirts will go on open auction (the silent bids having determined the starting bid). Shirts are on view at the Museum School Gallery (daily...