Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...managed to blend cubism with the sublime landscapes of northern romanticism. In an early work, Side Wheeler at the Landing, 1912, the style acquires the instability of a house of glass cards; every facet of the paddle steamer, trailing its smoke as it backs away from the wharf up the tilted plane of sea, seems both brittle and charged with energy...
...sometimes seems as if Arvin Brown, artistic director of New Haven's Long Wharf Theater, visits the London stage with a shopping list. And he never settles for shoddy goods. Among his finds have been The Changing Room by David Sto rey and The National Health by Peter Nichols. The link continues with Spokesong, a play of tipsy irony and fantastical humor set against the cruel fratricide of Northern Ireland...
...Shadow Box. A group of terminal patients face death with pervasive fear and arresting dignity in this luminous play by Michael Cristofer. Launched at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and restaged at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, this play went on to Broadway to win the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, heartening proof of the growing strength and creativity of the U.S. regional theater...
...starts before dawn for the students, participating in the center's Harbor Environmental Program. By bus, subway and on foot, they arrive at Long Wharf in downtown Boston by 8:15 a.m., in time for the 20-minute ferry ride to the island. Aboard the boat some sit quietly smoking cigarettes and talking among themselves, others lean out over the railing, staring out at the docks, ships and shorefront of Boston Harbor. Below deck on the 50-foot launch, some of the students drink coffee and chat with their teachers from the island school...
...scene of the America's Cup races. Ted Turner's Courageous looked like a winner as she hoisted her sails and breezed off to compete against the Australians. When ashore, Captain Ted kept a low profile, apart from throwing an impromptu party on Bannister's Wharf to read a special letter. "I am proud of you all and all Americans, Yankees and Southerners," wrote Jimmy Carter. "That was nice of him," conceded Turner...