Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell had many modes, and they ran from the white abstract grids of his "Dovecotes," filled with one repeated geo metrical motif-a ball, a wooden cube -to his lush romantic tree grottoes filled with exotic birds. But to see him as a reclusive American eccentric, a man working solely out of private fantasy, is to miss one major point of his art: its continual dialogue with the work of other artists, not only the Renaissance and mannerist painters whose images he selectively filched (as in his Medici Prince and Medici Princess boxes), but also those of the 20th century...
...actors, indeed, seem confined as most of the action takes place on a black platform surrounded by wooden railing and decorated only with three hard benches. The platform mostly serves as the stable where 17-year-old Alan Strang blinded six horses and as the claustrophobic office of Dr. Martin Dysart, the psychiatrist who must "cure" Alan. The performers move in a seemingly eternal sunset--the muted orange glow of Dan Scherlis' and Alexis Layton's gorgeous lighting design--dissolving only when we venture into Alan's tortured memory, where he relives his psychotic pains and pleasures in an evilly...
...PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS of the Wilbur work against Epstein's spaciously mystical vision of the Greenwood. The set--a giant wooden ramp curving upwards toward a silvery, reflecting moon--seemed to stretch for miles on both sides at the Loeb, and when the fairy bands tripped across the stage their motion seemed part of a supernatural current. At the Wilbur they emerge from behind one white proscenium and plunge behind the other. The singers make good use of the Wilbur's side balconies for antiphonal effects, but overall the theater's smaller size cramps some of this production's style...
Three kinds of people, Huan says, do not like China's new di rection. "First, the wooden heads- they cannot accept any change. Second, those who have been poisoned by their former training- they don't know how to change. Third, those who are too enthusiastic- they go to the other extreme " Concludes Huan: "There will be a fight between the modern and the traditional in China. But the man who persists in the old ideas will not survive. We are inventing a completely new experiment. How far can we go? That is the question...
...Summerside (pop. 10,200), an agricultural center on P.E.I.'s south shore, once noted for its schooners and wooden sailing ships, temperatures plunged below the freezing mark. The town normally pays the highest electricity bills in Canada because it taps diesel-fueled generators for most of its power. During the competition, however, the Summerside branch of the Royal Bank of Canada turned its thermostat down to a spartan 50°. Bundled in sweaters, the bank's employees toiled busily by the light of Coleman lanterns, kerosene lamps, candlesticks and even silver candelabra they had brought from home. Meanwhile...