Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playwright Tennessee Williams is madder than a cat on a hot tin roof about the reviews that crumpled his Clothes for a Summer Hotel as soon as it opened on Broadway last March. "I'll never open a play in New York again," he vows. Williams is therefore discussing an alliance with the Goodman Theater in Chicago, hoping the city that raved about the premiere of his first play, The Glass Menagerie, will once again be his kind of town. "This move was forced on me," insists the Pulitzer prizewinner. "I can't get good press from...
...junta immediately disbanded Congress, imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew and moved rapidly to crush resistance by students and workers, who called for a general strike in protest against the "fascist coup-makers." Tanks and troops also moved into southern towns where some 5,000 armed tin miners were blocking the roads and vowing to fight the coup "until the ultimate consequences." There were ominous signs that the junta had adopted the chilling anti-terrorist tactics pioneered by Argentina's military bosses. As in Argentina, a number of activists simply disappeared after being kidnaped by plain-clothes thugs...
...Fauvism, cubism and futurism -were able to digest and develop them with tremendous speed and urgency, leaping beyond their prototypes like pole vaulters. To see this at work, one need only look at the development of Vladimir Tallin's sculpture after his first contact with Picasso's tin cubist Guitar, 1912, in Paris, or at the conviction with which Kasimir Malevich moved from cubism to a purely abstract painting...
While your film critic Richard Schickel does list some of the unsavory images in the film The Tin Drum [April 28], he gives no warning of the many scenes that reduce sexual love to obscene bestiality and make women grosser than men in their lustfulness. It is a repulsive film...
...Conservatory of Music was bestowing on Flutist James Galway, 40, "you have given the musical community a fresh voice to celebrate." Accepting the degree, Galway treated the 109th graduating class of the august Boston school to that very ebullience and panache. From under his doctoral robes, he produced two tin whistles on which he played Belfast Hornpipe and jigs drawn from an Irish boyhood...