Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music takes over, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Sting and Madonna help to steal the show. However, the sets don't match the fullness of their music. While some of Keshishian's visual innovations are fun, too many of the numbers are performed against the starkness of a white backdrop...
Wertmuller is, of course, attempting to stage another attack on the male macho principle in this, her newest film The audience gets several tedious verbal and visual lectures on the beauty of female sexuality. Large sculptures of ancient fertility deities serve as a backdrop as Oscar's wife discusses the oppression of women through the ages. Most of the male characters are portrayed with the same comic flatness that marked and marred Steven Speilberg's The Color Purple. Men fight ridiculous fights, and say ridiculous things in bed, while they garner physical pleasures from Wertmuller's beautiful bisexual females...
...Harvard undergrad, six months of imagination and dedication to a dream have culminated in the Festival of Life--a seven-day extravaganza of visual, literary, and performing arts events later this month which will benefit AIDS research...
Problems locating large lecture halls with the appropriate equipment caused professors to reschedule Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology," Literature and Arts B-29, "Beginnings of Modernism in the Visual Arts," and Historical Studies A-12, "International Conflicts in the Modern World," courses whose combined projected enrollments exceed 1000 students...
Literature and Arts B-29, "Beginnings of Modernism in the Visual Arts," will meet at 11:30 a.m., rather than the originally-scheduled 2:30 p.m., because of Professor of Fine Arts Timothy J. Clark's wish to take advantage of the Sackler's advanced audio-visual equipment, said Assistant Director of the Core Curriculum Joyce Toomri...