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...Angeles is probably the only city in the world in which theater has been considered a lesser art form, something actors practice while they are waiting for the big break into television or movies. But now, with the enthusiasm of a convert, the city has discovered a secret the Greeks knew 2,500 years ago: there is nothing so exciting as a live performance. The nonprofit Mark Taper Forum has become a showcase for serious, innovative drama; dozens of tiny, off-off-Broadway type theaters have sprung up in the shadow of the freeways; and big Broadway producers have found...
Davidson has already turned his 742-seat theater into a national hitmaker with such shows as The Shadow Box and Children of a Lesser God. Last week he opened the first of two new plays with a Southern California theme-a belated celebration of the 200th birthday of Los Angeles. Titled Number Our Days, it is based on University of Southern California Anthropologist Barbara Myerhoffs study of a community of elderly Jews in a seedy part of Venice. The play attempts to examine not only what it means to be Jewish in America, but what it means...
...canon of intensity for generations to come. The sad fact seems to be that no younger American artist, in the 25 years since his death, has quite got past Pollock's achievement. His work was mined and sifted by later artists as though he were a lesser Picasso; seen through this or that critical filter, it could mean almost anything. The basic données of color-field abstraction, which treated the canvas like an enormous watercolor dyed with mat pigment, were deduced by Frankenthaler, Morris and Noland from the soakings and spatterings of Pollock's work. Along...
...member nations are "behaving contrary to the logic of the Community" by reverting to nationalist, mercantilist policies. Carli described the members as divided into two camps: the protectionists and the free traders. The protectionists include France and Britain, while the free traders are West Germany and, to a lesser extent, Italy, The Netherlands and Belgium...
...Richard Burton. Pop Singers Barry Manilow and Engelbert Humperdinck have two apiece. The Queen Mother got one as an 80th-birthday gift. Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales, received a pair when they were married. What do these luminaries have in common? Along with thousands of lesser mortals, each has had his or her name appended to at least one star-of the heavenly kind-in what seems to be the most far-out fad since astrology...