Word: strangerness
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...street performer's audience can provide morethan just drunk fans. One warm Sunday, whileperforming for a large crowd in front of Origins,Athena was approached by a saxophonist who wastraveling through Boston with his band. Athenainvited the mysterious stranger to jam with her;he immediately agreed and soon returned with foursaxophones and a flute. They ended up performing aimprovised duet. "it was magic," says Athena. Theysustained the "beauty" for over three hours,merging their souls in wild, passionate,uninhibited...music. "It was like musical love atfirst sight. It was beautiful." Although thesaxophonist lives three hours away, he joinsAthena's band...
...militant Asian," I am nonetheless insulted by his portrayal of the AAA in today's paper. Regardless of his personal relationships with Asians, he does not have the license to use stereotypes in this malicious manner. It would be comparable to my using the word "nigger" to a complete stranger because my African-American friends use that term...
...would say the post office is my enabler. Last spring, the phrase on everybody's lips was" do you want the same people running health care who run the post office?" All I could answer was, YES! The post office sweeps up my thoughts and delivers them into some stranger's eager hands. The wings of the post office eagle mediate between my brain and someone else's. It's pure magic--exactly what we're demanding from doctors...
...composers for director Robert Wilson's epic the CIVIL warS, a multiact theater piece that has yet to be performed in its entirety. He is currently working on his first full-fledged opera, Dr. Ox's Experiment, based on an obscure Jules Verne novel about a stranger who arrives in a village where time moves infinitely slowly and who disrupts everyone's life by bringing them back to "normal." In The Sinking of the Titanic he has created a modern fantasia on a hymn tune that resonates serenely through the eight decades since the "unsinkable" luxury liner went down...
...Images and Identities" also includes some Longfellow-related pieces, including portraits of the poet by other artists, and some eerily fascinating Hiawatha kitsch. One of the stranger pieces is a ceramic plate depicting Hiawatha carrying off his new bride, Minnehaha, who, in a bit of artistic license-taking, has been made into a Nordic goddess. However, unless you have a real interest in the poet, most of the exhibits aren't very compelling. Some of the broader historical points the show makes are relevant but not very interesting...