Word: spaceman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty-three people gathered at the Institute of Politics to hear Bill "Spaceman" Lee, a left-handed pitcher who was a star on the Red Sox' 1975 World Series team; David King, assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government; Don Skwar, columnist at the Boston Globe; and Larry Tye, a Boston Globe reporter, reflect on why fewer Americans are identifying baseball as their favorite sport...
...memorable line to provide the title--raw materials more common in the pop music "underground" than coal under the real ground. And their lyrical and emotional raw materials are equally commonplace; lead guy and stripedshirt collector Mick Murphy sings about wanting to escape his friends for a while ("Mr. Spaceman"); about not understanding why his girlfriend left him ("Gas," "Tremendous many"); about crushes ("Water for a Man on Fire") and so on. Sometimes (as in Sorry's Not Enough") the results are equally commonplace, WFNX fodder whose riffs are" memorable" only is some minimal, involuntary sense...
...bourgeois German household has been banished in favor of an American apartment decorated in 1960s high tacky. The Stahlbaum children get a giant Barbie doll and a spaceman at their family Christmas Eve party. The guests are dressed in the worst excesses of a quarter-century ago, and before long they are drunk and lubricious. Postmodern choreographer Mark Morris, never at a loss for a flip word or gesture, insists that his take on the Tchaikovsky classic is not a send-up, but that is exactly what it is -- rude, boisterous and more than a little, well, nutty...
Cast members were poised in the middle of the audience with fog machines throughout the production, creating an interesting misty effect that enhanced the rather extra-terrestrial feel of the set. Several of the actors favored the spaceman look, with sliver shoes and ling-snouted plastic guns...
...longer offers art the same possibilities. The optimism of '60s Pop makes it look more romantic than it used to. Having been propaganda for its own culture, some of it has turned into history painting of a quite poignant sort. Robert Rauschenberg's Retroactive II, 1964, with its spaceman and its young, glamorous, dead J.F.K., might well be the last affectionate tribute to a political figure produced by a major American artist -- you can't imagine an intelligent person feeling the same hero worship for Kennedy today, let alone for Reagan or Bush. Much of one's re-encounter with...