Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works, the audience clearly got the idea of what Davis means by voltage and terror. The first composition was the overture to Les Francs-Juges, an unfinished opera about the secret vigilante courts that terrorized Germany in the Middle Ages. The overture, as Davis says, "has a sort of white-hot energy. In the middle there is the most pathetic, square melody that is savaged by the rest of the orchestra. It's like some virgin being taken through the most disgraceful scenes...
...past nine years, Robert Ryman, 38, a shy, quiet, Tennessee-born part-time art teacher, has lived in Manhattan lofts and tenements and painted "naked" pictures. That is to say, he covers rectangles of metal, canvas or paper with white paint and then, instead of framing them or stretching them, he mounts them as close to the wall as he can get them, sometimes stapling them directly to the plaster. The effect is unnerving. The wall seems to have developed a gaping hole...
Full-length cartoon features have been based on novels (Gulliver's Travels), fairy tales (Snow White), even classical music (Fantasia). Yellow Submarine may be the first to be based on a song. Recorded in 1966, the Beatles' jaunty single was jolly good nonsense that even a tune-deaf kid could sing. It was also a sly euphemism for a drug-inspired freak-out. The movie ends up as a curious case of artistic schizophrenia. The score includes several hits by the Beatles and just as many misses. The plot and the animation seem too square for hippies...
...TAKE OFF your shoes and socks and leave them in the hall," the sign read. Inside, in the assembly hall of the Christ Church parish house, a tall man with gray hair was blowing up an enormous white balloon--at least six feet in diameter--with an air pump. His name was Ted Moynihan, and he wore black leotards...
Darling--Julie Christie in black and white. At the HARVARD SQUARE...