Word: jaggedness
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No Believer. An intense nationalist who had a Pan-Slavic fascination with Russia-one reason why his work is exceptionally popular in the Soviet Union -Janáček was a bitter atheist. "A church is concentrated death," he once said. "Tombs under the floor, bones on the altar, pictures...
Peasant Vigor. For a sculptor whose working life spanned more than 50 years, Brancusi's approximately 200 extant pieces do not constitute a large body of work. Once Brancusi found a motif that delighted him, he characteristically repeated it over and over again, subtly altering and refining its shapes...
Without announcing the titles of his songs, acknowledging applause only with a quick smile or a murmured "thank you," he sang with the new voice and manner first heard on his most recent LP, Nashville Skyline (TIME, April 11). It is far less nasal and rasping than before, far less...
The curtain raiser, appropriately titled Silence, presents two men and a woman (Anthony Bate, Norman Rodway, Frances Cuka) seated in the disembodied setting of a hazily mirrored stage and backdrop. They all have monologues to recite about loneliness and remembered passion. But each monologue is fragmented, interspersed with the others...
Now, as then, it is cold and wet on Omaha. From the Channel, the north wind knifes in, and the beach is desolate except for the occasional lonely figure poking for shellfish. As the tide recedes, the ugly debris of war emerges: a black shape here, a jagged something there...