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...from 23 foreign countries. China has lent an ad hoc museum of treasures, including 20 two-ton bricks from the Great Wall. Among the other 1,000 artifacts coming from the People's Republic: pearl-encrusted tapestries, ancient porcelain and a pair of life-size 3rd century B.C. terra cotta warriors. The Egyptians, too, plan to ship some splendid pieces, including the chariot of Pharaoh Ramses II. Japan's installation, with perhaps a touch of international swagger, will show off the country's state-of-the-art industrial robots. Australia is building a wind-power facility...
...course, anyone who has seen a clay modello by Bernini or a Della Robbia plaque, a Kändler figure or terra cotta Madonna by Verrocchio, knows that all ready. In that sense the debate is pointless. But the misunderstanding survives, though clay is the oldest form of sculpture: God did not chip Adam from marble, or weld him together...
When Ponce de León first sighted thi shores of what he believed was an island on a balmy March day in 1513, he named it Florida (full of flowers), in honor of the Easter season. The region was settled slowly, even reluctantly. South Florida, in particular, was terra incognita. The Florida land commission described it in 1823 as a place "of half-deluged plains, deep morasses, and almost inaccessible forests . . . a home only for beasts, or for men little elevated above beasts...
...season led off with a rumbustious, top-of-the-lungs revival of The Front Page, that cynical fairy tale of newsmen with contempt for the truth who nonetheless embrace newspapering with a passion that crushes all other loves. Next week the theater will present Ted Tally's 1977 Terra Nova, a poetic, emotional drama about Robert Falcon Scott's second-place finish in the race to reach the South Pole-and his team's anguished way back, with the last of them dying only a few miles from base camp. While those productions continue in rotation, Michael...
Gardner and his colleagues may have been right to start with something safe. But they may also have established audience expectations of straightforward revelry that Terra Nova will confound. If the Festival Theater is eventually to stand with the opera and the chamber festival, it must play even farces for their fullest meaning-and surely must lift its audience beyond farce. -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Martha Smilgis/Santa...