Word: statics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he exchanges the abstract of the classroom for the concrete of Manhattan, enlightenment is not involved in the trade. Everett's career as an editor is static; an early marriage dissolves in diffidence, and his wife and young daughter move on. Happiness, Everett concludes, is like one of those ideas at the university: too difficult to grasp, and therefore best evaded. In the end, after another failed marriage and numerous unsatisfying affairs, the compulsive wanderer is still at the border, both of feeling and of countries, as he sojourns in Europe. "Why go home?" he wonders...
...appropriate, even if her distressing vocal wobble is not, and MacNeil's fraying baritone sounds better than it has in years. Ezio Frigerio's sets evoke both the splendor and the asceticism of medieval Ravenna and Rimini, but Director Piero Faggioni compensates for the music's static quality by moving the cast around a bit too hectically. The second act, however, is spectacular. It depicts a ferocious battle between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, replete with whizzing crossbow arrows and hurtling fireballs. Conductor James Levine goes straight for the jugular, giving Francesco's high quotient...
...listener over calm, lush synthesiser settings. On "Gravity's Angel", she alternates her voice between a high whisper and an unexpressive monotone while the music (like "Born Never Asked" and "Let X=Y" on Big Science) breaks in and out of slow, staccato climaxes. "Blue Lagoon" is a static, serene number, which contains one of Anderson's funniest vocal effects since "Walk...
KURY SENSITIVELY describes the complex needs and pleasures that draw Lena and Madeline to each other. They seem to receive a warmth missing from each of their marriages, while at the same time the bond provides the support for both women to move outside their secure, almost static, worlds. For Madeline, it is to leave her bumbling husband, while for Lena, it is to feel capable of venturing outside of her house...
Another troublesome point was U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. In general, the commission took an uncompromisingly hard line: The U.S. must not settle for "static containment" of a heavily armed Marxist dictatorship. Instead, the U.S. should keep pressure on the Sandinistas to schedule free elections, end censorship and otherwise liberalize their regime, without necessarily abandoning power...