Word: tunics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divisions of Florentine painting, and the didactic starkness of the idealized body is always softened by its atmospheric envelope. It is the action of light, more than any other first impression, that one remembers from Veronese's Venus and Adonis, for example, with its rosy flesh and red tunic perfectly set against the cool, remote blue-greens of forest...
...more "Japanese," it would almost be a Van Gogh. At times, Manet's tact in balancing the decorative and the real almost passes belief, an example being the black stripe on the fifer's right leg-swelling and closing with negligent grace, extending the black of the tunic only to stop it an interval above the foot...
...dressed in pleated, '30s-style trousers, the kind that Cary Grant or Katharine Hepburn used to wear in the movies. This attractive, provocative first glance recalls Tharp's triumphant Push Comes to Shove (1976); that ballet began with Baryshnikov's sidling out in a vaguely Slavic tunic and a sassy bowler hat. No doubt about it, Tharp understands this Russian-American firebird better than any other choreographer. She sees the virtuoso and the man in exile, and above all she understands the star power...
...Muslim country, Washington and Islamabad quickly rediscovered each other. That rediscovery was at the heart last week of the warm greeting in Washington given by President Reagan to Pakistan's unelected President since 1977, Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. With his good looks, set off by an invariable charcoal tunic, and his ready grin and seemingly reasonable attitude, Zia staged an energetic performance. His intention: to establish a highly visible presence for his country and elicit from the Reagan Administration a renewed commitment for political and economic...
...EXTRAVAGANZA now playing at Kirkland House is blessed with a lead actor who looks uncannily, definitively Messianic. From the moment Adam Isaacs strolls onstage in his white tunic, smiling and nodding at some 25 adoring followers, any doubts as to the feasibility of staging a gospel-inspired rock opera at a predominantly blow-dried university become moot. The illusion of Deeper Meaning holds. And in a show which draws about a third of its emotional impact from that illusion and another third from the power of an extraordinarily rich score, such a visual bonus is no small gain...