Word: venusized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effect, the ART's production of Phaedra is transformed into a timeless cross-cultural masterpiece with its successful adaptation of script and plot. While one doesn't hear the phrase "I have Venus in my veins like a virus" commonly in everyday vernacular, its implications are understood. This production, like the new translation, voices the ethos of Racine's original but also escapes the stodginess of many contemporary takes on pre-modern plays...
Indeed, the funniest parts (for the older audience, at least) occur in the beginning of the movie, before Dil is ever born. For example, at the baby shower, Tommy's aunt airily tells the expectant mother, "You know what they say: born under Venus, look for a--" before being neatly cut off by her cell phone. And Drew, when his daughter demands to know why she is being left at her cousin Tommy's house for the day, sweetly explains that "Daddy has to work overtime so Mommy won't be ashamed of his corporate earnings...
Well, it's stuff for modern kids: the ones who are primal enough to giggle at a peepee rainbow (created by infants in a nursery) and the "pooped in his pantsie" jokes, yet canny enough to finish the film's sentence "Born under Venus, look for a..." In the catchy newborn nursery anthem This World Is Something New to Me, kids may understand the line "This world is such a gas!" followed by an impolite noise, and the baleful "I can barely hear myself suck!" but not the pouty "I miss my old womb," and maybe not the exchange between...
...City last week, Beck's brother Channing Hansen performed Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, a piece originated by his grandfather, which entailed his reading a list of names and then wrapping his head in masking tape. Al's work--including the female torsos made of cigarette butts (like Suitcase Venus, above left), lighters or Hershey wrappers--is owned by such big shots as Jasper Johns and Claes Oldenburg. The late artist may develop a younger group of fans now that he's sharing wall space with his famous grandson. Sure, Beck's artworks (that's OK Jet, above right...
...like a Venus flytrap. It's morecomplicated than it seems to be. The barriers toenter are very low--rent the place, get someequipment. You don't need to launch a satellite,"he says...