Barnes purists may consider this heresy, but Barnes’s installation should sometimes change and move a little. There are moments, especially in the upstairs galleries among the plethora of drawings and Greek and African objects, where the presentation palls and oppresses a bit, even now. The symmetrical patchwork doesn’t always come across as meticulously assembled; it can seem arbitrary and maniacally crowded. More generally, there is simply too much there for everything to remain in perpetual lockdown.
Those displaced are not the only ones worrying about the project. The project abuts territory controlled by the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), one of a plethora of ethnic insurgencies that have battled the central government for decades.
C-Span has been uploading its history for several years, working its way to 1987, when its archives were established at Purdue University, Mr. Lamb’s alma mater.
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The cosmetic nature of the change reinforces the perception that the LDP is flailing. Dissatisfaction has been brewing for a decade and a half, though a plethora of hapless opposition parties has failed to do more than briefly interrupt LDP rule (for an 11-month stint in 1993-94). One former prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, even won his mandate in 2001-06 after vowing to “destroy” his own party.
But Mr. Taylor’s imagination works less like a novelist’s than like a poet’s. Some of his works are dreamscape dramas composed in extraordinarily free verse. One such is “Scudorama” (1963), which hadn’t been seen onstage for decades until the current revival, which I caught in St. Louis in November and which arrived in New York on Friday: even most Taylor devotees haven’t seen it before.
Its set and costumes are by Alex Katz. The backdrop looks like a shoal of thunderclouds. The costumes cover a whole range of crazy possibilities, not least those of three women in black tights and white ruffs that make them look half like Puritan Sisters (but only half). Blankets and rugs are used; dancers are dragged across the stage on them or secreted under them.
The score, specially created by Clarence Jackson, includes overt references to composers from Stravinsky to Gershwin, as well as the loud blowing of a whistle. The recording being used for the current season, which I assume was made at a live performance in the 1960s, contains a loud cough that somehow seems all part of the fabric.
And neither the music nor the design is as wild as the choreography. Spasms pass through most of the dancers at various points, but so do sequences of strict control. At one moment two of the Puritan Sisters start to wind the third down, round, up and about, as if she were part of a machine. Ms. Halzack (dressed in scarlet tights), her torso bent low, grips her lower thighs with her splayed hands and slowly extends one leg up to the side. (This step recurs verbatim in Merce Cunningham’s very dissimilar 1968 “RainForest” — were both choreographers quoting their alma mater, Martha Graham?) Later the three Puritans do it briskly.
I have seen this work twice now, and am still happily befogged by it. We don’t know whose dream this is or why it covers such a plethora of nightmare chaos. Ms. Halzack and Sean Mahoney are superb in leading roles; Michael Trusnovec (in jacket and tie) and the other performers are all excellent. I think Mr. Taylor went on to give us dreams whose imagination now hits harder, but there is a frenzy here that releases something in these dancers. (Julie Tice, who is having a good season generally, here moves her torso with a weightiness I haven’t seen before.)
hapless
adj.Luckless; unfortunate. See synonyms at unfortunate.
haplessly hap'less·ly adv.
haplessness hap'less·ness n.
plethora
n.
- A superabundance; an excess.
- An excess of blood in the circulatory system or in one organ or area.
[Late Latin plēthōra, from Greek, from plēthein, to be full.]
- [pléθərə]
[名]
1 ((形式))大量；過多, 過剰
a plethora of grain
多量の穀物.
多量の穀物.
2 [U]多血症, 赤血球過多症.
noun
1 (ALSO Alma Mater) FORMAL your alma mater the school, college or university where you studied
2 [S] US the official song of a school, college or university
befog
tr.v., -fogged, -fog·ging, -fogs.
- To cover or obscure with or as if with fog.
- To cause confusion in; muddle.
scudo
n., pl. -di (-dē).
A monetary unit and coin formerly used in Italy and Sicily.
[Italian, shield, scudo, from Latin scūtum, shield.]
The Scudo has been used as a unit of currency in several different states:
Other meanings:
- Fiat Scudo, a medium-sized van
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