Word: minimalistically
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...climax and then fades away gradually. There is silence for a few minutes, and then the brittle piano chords of "October" start. Sparse and lonely, like a barren tree in winter, "October" is U2 at its finest, displaying some of the strongest emotions on the album with the simplest, minimalist music...
...Three minimalist clowns expressing existential discomfort doesn't sound like a funny pitch. That's because it has the word clowns in it. But watching these three guys try to impress a casting director by head-butting a ham through a paper target, or a female audience member by singing, dancing and yelling "Look at me!" is the brainiest physical comedy in a long time. Their performance skills are Cirque du Soleil quality (one of them, Michael Dahlen, is a member of the surreal mime troupe the Blue Man Group), and even they hope to bring their slacker vaudeville...
...James Turrell--a dimly lighted room that the viewer enters through a narrow, black hallway. Inside are two dim lamps pointing toward opposite walls and what appears to be a black rectangle hung on the wall. I walked in and was not impressed. I'm not anti-minimalist--in fact, I loved the minimalist collection of the Orange County Museum--but two lights and a rectangle in a dark room...
...meaningless activities, for loading with importance gestures that didn't mean beans so as to criticize the "importance" assigned to artmaking itself. His earliest work was, in fact, done in the '70s, and it produced a number of hybrids of minimal and performance art. Often they involved the prototypical Minimalist cube, with Ray inside it and some parts of him sticking out--a box with a clockface, for example, its hands moved by the artist, whose legs hang out of two holes in the bottom like a pendulum. Inside, in the darkness, Ray would try to guess what time...
...first fashion superstar, a huge personality who was the embodiment of '70s glamour, excess and hyperactive nightlife, the dresser of such gorgeous creatures as Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli, Lauren Bacall and Jacqueline Kennedy (he even created her pink pillbox hat). But as a designer, he was all minimalist chic. His simple, elegant lines, his use of sensual, clinging fabrics like jersey and cashmere and practical ones like Ultrasuede and his disavowal of the extraneous made him the quintessential American designer. But a businessman he was not. Long before he died in 1990, at the age of 57, he had lost...