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Californians might have had some trouble last week judging which of two rehearsals for catastrophe represented the more realistic bit of make-believe. The show staged by the Los Angeles fire department to simulate a downtown earthquake boasted the more vivid special effects: smoke from exploding cars billowing over a storefront set; moans from people "dying" in the street. The production put on by the politicians in Sacramento was more muted, but it concerned a calamity, state bankruptcy, that was more certifiably imminent-even as soon as next week...
...papal collecting and patronage came in the 16th and 17th centuries. It lasted from the pontificate of Julius II (1503-13)-who commissioned the frescoes in the Stanze from Raphael and the Sistine frescoes from Michelangelo-through the reign of Clement VIII (1592-1605). In those years the most vivid and impressive aspects of papal taste came to their highest pitch, sometimes nearly bankrupting the papacy with the mania for the Antique, the demand for vast fresco cycles, fountains and pharaonic tombs, and the general love of lapis lazuli and gold...
...Wouk and Curtis do create an engrossing narrative. In most historical dramas, the depictions of real events often seem staged, while the author's inventions seem real. In The Winds of War, the reverse is true. The historical scenes, some of them scrupulously copied from old newsreels, are vivid and acute, while the fictional scenes sometimes look stiff and awkward. But those moments pass and the story takes over, building up momentum as it approaches its tragic conclusion, hour after hour after hour. Meanwhile, ABC hopes for a happier ending of its own. Having taken its gamble, the network...
...body messages of Smith's sculpture do not depend on whether the pieces have "heads" or "legs," as quite a few of them do. They flow from the internal relationships of the forms and from the metaphorical suggestions of tension, flexibility, alertness and so forth that their vivid and deliberate "drawing" evokes...
...fence, far below, was strung at the top with concertina wire. Palmer also has a habit of interrupting characters' reveries and providing information that they do not know, a tic that needlessly diverts attention from the puppets to the puppeteer. But he successfully keeps a large cast of vivid actors breathlessly on the move. Better still, he offers an entertainment that is also a journey through the underworld and a harrowing of hell...