Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard repaired Robinson and Emerson Halls three years ago, but at the time the Faculty could not afford to fix Sever. Only the upper story underwent minor repairs to provide the Visual and Environmental Studies Department with a few course rooms...
...plays being staged by the Adams House Drama Society this weekend, he used the radio form to experiment with a dramatic structure he felt could be "more flexible and mobile than in any other medium." More than his works written for stage, the radio plays are characterized by lucid visual imagery. His language paints whole worlds in the mind of the listener, through the themes of perception and identity, by powerful use of silence, and by a type of mobility that becomes inevitably constrained by the boundaries of a stage...
Fascinating as Pinter's radio plays are, the Adams House production suffers from the strains of translation into theater and fails to make up for it by exploiting the visual opportunities afforded by the stage. Ultimately, the internal turmoil of two unconvincing main characters simply loses its relevance. At first it's funny, then just plain dull. Either way, it's not what Pinter intended...
...Three visual themes recur: a train, a trial, a field with a spaceship. The train, which first appears as a steam locomotive, returns as an observation car and finally as a university building. In the two courtroom scenes, it is never clear who is on trial. The illuminated cubicles of the spaceship's interior, with flashing lights and moving silhouettes, resemble a grownup's busy box. Einstein has very little to do with the proceedings, although sometimes he fiddles furiously from a raised platform in the pit. Wilson's art reflects the work he has done...
...close together-for instance, jewelry and leather goods, which appeal to high spenders. Then he figures out how people should walk through a given floor. To influence them, he often replaces the conventional long lines of counters with displays that jut into the corridors. These "islands" give shoppers a visual sample of the goods for sale just around the corner. The aim is to bombard customers with subtle enticements to explore the store-and buy more goods. When successful, says Walker, "shopping becomes entertainment, and the store becomes both theater and selling machine...