Word: spotlit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like all vaudeville, Not at the Palace depends for its success on the personality of its spotlit entertainer--in this case, Joe Masiell, a lithe, practiced, crudely handsome Italian (his agent chopped the "o" off the end of his surname) with a contagious delight in performing. On stage for the entire production, he performs all but one of its numbers. Joe Masiell--as he himself emphasizes--has had a checkered career in show business. "It's been a push, a battle, a struggle for a long while," he commented after opening night. "I've been at it since...
...sculptor named Olavi Lanu set forth a whole environment called Life in the Finnish Forest-blurred human figures made of earth, live moss, birch bark and other organic material. Granted that these quaint vegetative trolls would have looked better if met by accident in the woods, rather than spotlit in a gallery, they were still banal as sculpture -but children who visit the Biennale will love them...
...into 1979, includes very nearly all of the major examples of early Irish art that have remained in Irish collections, a loan of unparalleled generosity. Its only fault, a too common one at the Metropolitan, is the installation-a gross Tiffany-in-Vegas effort, with each item so harshly spotlit that exaggerated shadows break up the intricate gold surfaces, eliding the exquisitely delicate transitions of depth and texture which were the very essence of the Celtic jewelers' art. Everything looks as if it were for sale...
...enough to be able to continue to speak. For all the bulk of criticism written about his work by others, none is as important as his own self-critical realization of the difficulty of that task. His latest work, a very short play called Not I, focuses on a spotlit mouth, a disembodied voice babbling its lines. For as words are picked more and more severely, the speaker himself begins to vanish. Words break free for themselves. Beckett has shown that it is only by being able to trick the words into saying us that we can continue to speak...
...Listen," Muth told the newsmen who surged around him. "I believe in Ted Agnew. The day they make me stop believing, I'm going to take down my American flag and put it away." He explained that his flag flies 24 hours a day, spotlit at night. As for all the hullabaloo about Agnew, Muth declared: "It's bullshit. You may quote...