Word: woodenness
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...ingenuity of kinetic artists. They have at least one thing in common: "They're all completely obsessive," says Sarah Alexander of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, a museum of automata that brings its showcase of 10 British artists, including Paul Spooner, to the Phaeno. The inspiration for Spooner's witty, handcranked wooden tableaux can be an artistic masterpiece - as in his saucy version of Manet's Olympia - or the odd mental image of a man eating the bathtub of spaghetti in which he's sitting. "It's the challenge of getting the thing to work that makes them...
...called "Sharmanka" (Russian for hurdy-gurdy), Bersudsky began sculpting in Leningrad in the late 1960s. There, out of sight of the authorities, he poured his sarcasm and frustration at the Soviet Union's dead hand on artistic and cultural freedom into giant, busy works built of scrap iron and wooden carvings such as the precarious Pisa Tower - a collection of Jewish figures struggling frantically to keep their balance - or Noah's Ark, a warped bestiary sailing forever in search of dry land...
...Recently you won the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, does it come with any cool perks? CME: There is a cash prize which was really nice. And I got a little wooden plaque that I could put on my wall too. Like a tennis trophy...
...coming out of the closet as a public figure (“Are you British? Are you knighted?”), and a monologue comparing the transience of Buddhist sand mandalas to Hollywood executives ordering salads and later excreting the contents.Orsini and Serrell oscillate between the tender and the wooden. Moments in which the two examine their hang-ups over their sexual orientation, which extend far beyond simple denial, find the two at their best, filled with passion tempered by history, doubt, and the public eye. Other scenes can be downright awkward: when Alex and Ellen first interact...
...done voices for some of them in order to conceive of them better, but you can’t really write a part for yourself. It’s too hard to do that.RR: In ten words or less: the plot of Fable Attraction.BP: Um, ok, here we go. Wooden boy finds dad. Asian communist barkeep. Hilarity ensues. RR: Before your involvement in the Pudding, did you have any experience wearing high heels or other women’s clothing?BP: No, absolutely not. In high school, I played an obese southern girl in a play, which was really...