Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chauvinism and its basis in medieval history had traditionally called forth productions that were awash with romanticist naturalism-gingerbread houses, magical forests and peasant maids. Wieland Wagner twice tried to replace all this with fresh approaches. In 1956, he staged the work as a spare, poetically brooding vision, in 1963, as an authentic but highly mannered recreation of Shakespearean theater...
...does the U.S. lack for architects of ability, vision and daring. True, compared with many other professions, they form a thin line. There are only 29,000 registered architects in the U.S., compared with 315,000 lawyers, 315,000 doctors, 275,000 engineers, and they still have too little effect on U.S. building. But given the opportunity, the best U.S. architects often lead the world. Among the examples is the new World Trade Center, now going up in Manhattan: designed by Minoru Yamasaki of Birmingham, Mich., its 110-story aluminum-sheathed twin towers will top the Empire State Building, since...
...summer in a wing of the Wittelsbach family palace, formally known as the Munich Residence. Selected from Ludwig's three castles, from vaults and state theatrical museums, and sumptuously installed in velvet-hung, stagily lit galleries, their magpie splendors represent the culmination of Ludwig's eclectic vision...
Last week the first copy of a new papal encyclical on the subject became available. Its essence was contained in these uncompromising words: "Conforming to fundamental principles of the human and Christian vision of marriage, we must once again state that there must be excluded absolutely, as a licit way in which to regulate births, the direct interruption of the generative process...
...land between Julie and the audience; the slow motion sequence is stylistically justifiable only if we interpret Coutard's contemplative panning as emerging from a half-memory of Julie's too personal for us to experience. The last shot of the film also deprives us of the vision we are accustomed to: Julie's final killing is very much her own, and though we will make of it what we can, our own conclusions are of decidedly secondary importance...