Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...minimalist risk, of course, is chopping away the meat with the fat. Syrie Maugham, the great minimalist interior designer, discarded her earliest works, stark unpainted rooms devoid of furniture and even windows, for what later became her classic minimalist style, rooms done completely in white in which enormous windows played a crucial role. Likewise, Mamet progresses in Reunion to achieve the depth that got lost in Dark Pony, and expands his message to the maximum...
...same program of another work, The Berlin Requiem, which, as presented, is so starkly untheatrical that it makes you feel uncomfortable merely to be sitting in the theater. Hastily substituted for two Samuel Beckett pieces at a late date, The Berlin Requiem is a series of seven songs devoid of light, hope, and in the end life itself. It is a work of music, really, not theater at all. Weill's orchestration turns the woodwind section into a mock organ, coldly pealing in the face of death...
...evening, however, was not devoid of excellent Crimson performances. Sophomores Terri Frick and Kathleen McCloskey each copped new pool records. Frick establishing a new mark in the 200-yard Butterfly in a brisk 2:11.72, and then winning the 400 Individual Medley in 4:47.66--just three-tenths of a second shy of a new record...
...context statements to have detrimental impact on affirmative action policies and programs throughout this country. The "Exams Bias" article was written without any data or description of the methodology used and was also presented in the absence of any basic journalistic inquiry. Since when do raw scores devoid of personal context guage admission? Klitgaard's assertions completely ignore the importance of the socio-economic history of minority groups and women in this country. Why is Klitgaard trying to quantify and reduce to black and white a process that is shades of gray? What makes Klitgaard think that...
...Dionysus is somewhat muffled, despite Michael Cacoyannis' incisive direction and his crisply idiomatic translation. John Noah Hertzler's Pentheus is less a king than a kinglet, a petty tyro tyrant, and Christopher Rich's Dionysus is no god but a godlet, a prancing posturer devoid of awe, might and mystery...