Word: minimalistic
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...braille, to avoid the braille/English binary, etc. The implications of this logic are grave indeed: language should only be utilized in a very narrow, self-descriptive sense. Ebonics should only be used in describing people and subjects that are particular to Ebonics. It seems to me that this limited, minimalist view of language leads to more "opposition" than using language to describe other languages, as Ms. Barenbaum fears, because it keeps language bounded and discrete. I hope Ms. Barenbaum does not propose that speakers of Ebonics found a newsmagazine to rival Newsweek to cover Ebonics and thus avoid "opposition...
DIED. DAN FLAVIN, 63, minimalist sculptor who specialized in using fluorescent lights; of complications from diabetes; in Riverhead, New York...
...mostly the shift is away from traditional swashbuckle and toward more contemporary themes. Metropolitan Opera general manager Joseph Volpe notes that last year's stagings of Philip Glass's minimalist opera The Voyage didn't sell out, but he saw a whole new crowd in his theater. Increasingly, composers are turning to emotionally charged contemporary subjects. Stewart Wallace's Harvey Milk is considered a forerunner of a new creative order. On the drawing boards are works about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Michael Daugherty, and John Duffy's Black Water, about Chappaquiddick...
This unlikely partnership between the modern American minimalist and the chain-smoking Gallic dandy has resulted in 1993's Orphee, 1994's La Belle et la Bete and now Les Enfants Terribles, each based on a film of the same name by Cocteau. Distinguished not only by Glass's familiar, artful brand of minimalist music but also by Cocteau's impish, erotic sensibility, the operas are nevertheless quite different from one another. Orphee was a conventional opera that followed the script of the original film. With La Belle, Glass went a step further, stripping the film of its sound track...
DUNSTER HOUSE--The quiet past Thursday evening was punctuated, as usual, by quiet, melliflous voices and the strumming of a guitar. It was The Coffeehouse in its newest incarnation: the folk gathering. Dunsterites collected like dustballs in the Junior Common Room, blowing onto the minimalist couches, blowing off into the night. But while they were present in a room colored by the dimmed moose-head chandeliers and cloaked by student art reminiscent of one's fifth-grade painting class, they experienced voices untainted by recording...