Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps these rules are acceptable to Rome. This for sure: "The Rules for Rome" are not acceptable here. We can't play the game of democracy without freedom of political thought and expression. It is the prime rule and the most cherished. Without it, the game is ended...
...recounted early last week to Sicily's hushed Assembly by Deputy Carmelo Santalco: "About a week ago I was approached with offers to betray the [Christian Democratic] Party I have served for eleven years ... I referred the matter to the head of my party, who advised me to play out the game." His late-night visitors, said Santalco, were one of Milazzo's top aides, fast-rising Ludovico Corrao, 32, and a Communist henchman. In Santalco's room at Palermo's Hotel delle Palme, they offered to buy his Assembly vote and that of two other...
...week's program the two principal pieces, both choreographed by Cunningham, were Summer-space and Antic Meet, set to music by two modernists-Morton Feldman, 35, and John Cage, 47. The first, described as "a lyric dance," was an impressionistic work evoking the shimmering heat of summer, the play of light and shade. It was danced before a pointillistic backdrop of blue and green, and the dancers wore similarly dappled costumes (the spots were sprayed on with a paint gun), which permitted them to disappear into and emerge from the scenery as if they were passing through a wall...
This is in part because, for being so unfettered, Caligula's dream grows oddly one dimensional. It is in part because a dehumanized hero is, in morality-play fashion, surrounded by flatly allegorical types who seldom seem human either; in part because, where the talk does not resemble oratory, it resembles soliloquy...
...candles twinkle in the stands when they are happy, bonfires rage in the concrete bleachers when they are mad. In the Dominican Republic, they swarm onto the field in such purposeful rage that offending umpires have fled in the police paddy wagon. In Cuba, they salute a good play by spraying spectators across the diamond with a fusillade of Roman candles...