Word: staticity
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Despite the static setting (in one room in Maydee's house), the play moves fast, covering so much ground that its single location only gives the plot greater emotional intensity. The interaction between family members, although very particular to the four Black women, achieves a powerful universality...
Probably no opera could do justice to its subject's tempestuous 36 years. Jack Larson's static libretto focuses in flashback on Byron's eccentric amatory escapades; the action is framed by the efforts of Byron's friends to win him a place in Poets' Corner. Of his more dramatic travels, battles and death at Missolonghi there is scarcely a word. Such a conception might have worked had Thomson been a composer of passion and power, had he been able to write music commensurate with Byron's words and deeds -- had he been, in short, the Verdi of Otello...
...Drug Abuse (NIDA) survey of 1990, drug abuse rates were essentially flat, war or no war. Among 18-25 year-olds, marijuana use declined only slightly, from 27% to 22%. Cocaine was up a tad, reaching 8% from its starting point at 7%. And hallucinogens remain at a static...
...have a comic grace and a needling mysteriousness that are entirely their own. Yet it is hard to shake the feeling that, like all kinetic art, they are limited by their programs, so that once you have seen them shake their stuff they cannot renew themselves, as painting and static sculpture can, the second time around...
...reflection of and a reaction to Zoo TV, which uses giant video screens, satellite technology and automobiles swinging from cranes to evoke the surrealist, fast-forward distortion of the digitalized global village. In the title track, garbled voices, piano and a pulsing bass emerge from a haze of static like a radio receiver tuning in to a distant signal...