Word: skyscraperism
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The Met's exhibit tries to examine the main representation of American commercial architecture, the skyscraper. New York's monsters, the illuminated posters tell us, are the grandchildren of the Babylonian ziggurats, medieval siege towers, Notre Dame, and Christopher Wren's churches.
Last week's counter-protesters in New York showed an almost mystical respect for the flag: decals bedecked the helmets of construction workers: one skyscraper going up on Broadway sprouted flags by the dozens on its steelwork, including an immense Old Glory lit up at night. Said John D...
The set is a conversation piece all by itself. Manhattanites spend more time each day traveling vertically than any other people in the world. Designer Boris Aronson has embodied this in a kind of skyscraper-without-walls, a giant urban Junglegym with rising and descending elevators and the metallic, glassy...
Equally original are Prince's stylized staging, the Michael Bennett choreography (including a dance solo paying respects to sexual intercourse), and Boris Aaronson's platformed-skyscraper set, which allows Prince to create groupings in which paranoid characters can be vocally attacked from above.
The most personal of the recent portraits comes from two Pravda journalists, Washington-based Boris Strelnikov and his editorial colleague from Moscow. Igor Shatunovsky, who traveled coast to coast on a six-week automobile tour of the U.S. In an eleven-part series under the title "America on the Right...