Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...signed up-have no choice other than to be sick." By presenting them on videotape, she reasoned, the choreographer has "crossed the line between theatre and reality. I can't review someone I feel sorry for or hopeless about." More generally, Croce decried "victim art," art that forces the viewer to pity "dissed blacks, abused women or disenfranchised homosexuals...
...suspects that one ought to feel awe and delight, it is a pity one does not. So much money and effort spent to capture that brutal and ridiculous gesture. It's a feeling which the viewer will experience several times during the course of "Queen Margot," as if Chereau hoped to have one awestruck merely on the merits of enormous expense. It's an attitude which Louis XIV, the biggest conspicuous consumer of them all, would have understood, as a directorial technique however, it fails to deliver. After the wedding scene, "Queen Margot" disintegrates into the byzantine intrigues leading...
Martin Edmund's poems in The High Road to Taos invite comparison to the celebrated prehistoric paintings of the Lascaux caves in France. Both include images on a huge scale, natural subjects, an undercurrent of strange spirituality, But they also leave the viewer with the sensation that the scenes and emotions they illustrate have long been dry. The reader is forced to wonder, "Has the passion, like the paint, faded with time, or is the artist receiving too much credit...
George eventually recovers. And even though Hawthorne does a marvelous job writhing in a restraining chair and hiding under beds, the viewer applauds his recovery along with the British populace. His return to public life is as exuberant as his previous illness...
...King, as they call themselves, have a job to perform--they must display their lives as model, and their family as exemplary. When at last the family stands reunited on the steps of Saint Paul's for the celebration of George's recovery, Hynter manages to make the viewer believe that this is indeed a heroic act. Tragic, comic, and heroic--"The Madness of King George" really lives up to long-forgotten standards of entertainment...