Word: thrones
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...future Richard Lionheart. Geoffrey Monmouth, and King John--as they vie for control of England's future. "I was torn from you by the midwife," the adolescent John cries out at this mother, "and I haven't seen you since." "Yes," chimes in sullen Richard, his rival for the throne, "blame the midwife. She threw out the baby and kept the afterbirth...
...means, though, that the pure vigor and passion can't put enough spin on the story to provoke a certain exhilaration. In this jewel-studded dagger-edged world, desperate passions in unshaded colors often seem more believable than subtleties could in their ability to ignite passions and away a throne. "Look," cries John at one point, cowering away from Richard. "He's got a knife!" "A knife," his mother screams back, "Of course he has knife! We all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!" For barbarians, the Plantagenets pack in impressive wallop to the modern sensibility. Were...
...masterpiece, from that aspect, is James Hampton's Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millenium General Assembly. Hampton (1909-64), a janitor for the General Services Administration in Washington, started his own sect, of which he was the only member. The Throne was his life's work. It occupied him for 15 years, and it was still unfinished, locked in a rented garage, at his death. It was provoked by visions of Moses, the Virgin Mary and Adam. They inspired him to raise a monument, not to a past event but to a future...
...garage where, he believed, God whispered to him every night, Hampton slowly constructed the setting for the end of history, a suite of winged celestial furniture, complete with lecterns, pulpits, vases, an altar and crowns-180 objects in all. Only some of these are actually on exhibit; the throne itself is not, because it is too difficult to move. The entire construction is made out of junk, covered with layers of metal foil and kraft paper. The effect, twinkling and blazing under the museum lights, is of quite breathtaking intensity: the gold and silver may be only foil, but they...
...both the masters fight them off to triumph in the end. Looks like a bit of status anxiety on the part of the aristocrats in ye olds class struggle--yesh, but leave such thoughts, while they may bring lumpen to the throats of the proletariat, for the porcelain throne and Social Studies tutorials...