Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question becomes, "What goes?" In general, this question should be answered not by governments but by artists, disk jockeys, producers, theater owners and media executives. There are no simple formulas for what is permissible. And there is always a serious danger that high-quality, progressive art will be stifled for the sake of community standards. But much commercial trash, crassly produced to exploit the vulnerable minds of young people, is easy to identify...
...Shatrov's play works as more than a political curiosity. Staged by Robert Sturua of Soviet Georgia's Rustaveli Theater, which this month presented a striking King Lear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City, the show marks the U.S. debut of Moscow's venerable Vakhtangov Theater and of Ulyanov, its artistic director as well as its star. Although the bulky, brooding Ulyanov in no way resembles the vulpine Lenin, he and his troupe seem wholly at ease. Amid the symbolic flutters of cloth, abrupt bursts of music, caricatures of the old bourgeoisie and odd lighting shifts...
...Dice Clay can make millions reciting dirty nursery rhymes in public. Clay and the other new raunch artists, most of them, are only incidentally subversive. They don't believe for a moment, most of them, what they're saying. Metal musicians are no serious Satanists; their concerts are just theater pieces -- Cats with a nasty yowl. Clay is not the pathetic strutting stud he seems onstage; that's just a character. (Was Jack Benny really stingy? Is Pee-wee Herman really a goony child?) Bruce said what he thought; Clay says what his character thinks. So Clay and other entertainers...
...built itself a Potemkin village, complete with a bank, drugstore, barbershop, pool hall, Greyhound bus station, coin-operated Laundromat and quiet residential streets. Several double-wide trailers and late-model automobiles, all seized from real-life crime scenes, sprawl around the town. Even the movie theater, the Biograph, is a monument to real-life crime. Its main attraction, Manhattan Melodrama (starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy), was showing at the Biograph in Chicago when the bank robber John Dillinger was shot dead outside the theater by FBI agents...
...Blanche DuBois, modern Cambodia has always depended for its survival on the kindness of strangers -- and the strangers have not always been kind. While diplomats negotiated their shameful and shameless deals, Cambodians were paying a fearful price: hundreds of thousands died between 1970 and 1975, when Cambodia became a theater of the Vietnam War, a million or more (out of a population of 7 million) in the Khmer Rouge's ensuing four-year reign of terror...