Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shaky source) is spare and tight, penetrating immediately to the emotional core of every speech and rendering it as simply as possible. What has been cut from the dialogue is most always conveyed visually, usually through the expressions of the actors. Cacoyannis drops the chorus, the most glaringly unrealistic element of the play, although fragments of its lines occasionally turn up in the songs Clytemnestra sings to Iphigenia, or in the infrequent exclamations of a group of girls travelling with...
House masterships involve an element of style...
...expansion was reckless, "launched like a railroad engine at 400 kilometers an hour." In August, some 30,000 protesters tried to slow the train down by staging a noisy demonstration at Super Phenix, the big French plutonium breeder reactor east of Lyon. Now there is concern about a new element in the government's aggressive program. It is a plan to help pay for the country's nuclear expansion by making France a major dealer in that growing international commodity, "spent" atomic fuel...
Furniture," observes Zakas, "is thought of as a very complicated thing. It really isn't. A chair should have a seat and a back, a table a top and a base. Those are very simple elements to put together to sit on, eat at or store in." This kind of fun, and indeed new departures in design, has been made possible by a marriage of technology and sprightly aesthetics. Explains Zakas: "Probably the biggest single element has been the development of urethane foam. Before foam, you had to have springs, and they are a real hassle." The new supergrip...
...drag ballet troupe, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, is also a witty essay on sexual stereotypes. Perhaps even more than Balanchine, she loves Fred Astaire. A passage describing his partnership with Ginger Rogers could stand as well for Croce's writing about dance: "Passion-the missing element in just about every 'sexy' duet that has been attempted since- is usually confused with emoting or going primitive. With Astaire and Rogers, it's a matter of total professional dedication; they do not give us emotions, they give us dances, and the more beautifully they dance...