Re: RAT THE SUPERBOWL?

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

--- Lucie Manheim <luciemanheim@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I wasn't too surprised to get alot of Yank "In this
> country we have 
> something known as free speech"  rhetoric back--What
> I meant to do was 
> question the validity and the necessity of that
> particular topic in this 
> particular forum.
> As someone who spent more than 15 years in mainland
> China, I am fully aware 
> of what it really means to have freedom of speech
> taken away.  Please don't 
> be sloppy.  It's an overused term in both the US and
> the UK.  Just be aware 
> of what it actually means.
> So I seem to have made people mad-- frankly don't
> care.  I'mm going to 
> change the subject and see if anyone wants to come
> with me...
> So here's a question...who thinks that the advant of
> Dance Theater as (ie 
> Pina Bausch) and contemporary Opera (ie Peter
> Sellars)  are going to 
> actually, radically change the way we do theater? 
> And I don't mean simply 
> adding more music and dance to what we do.. but
> rather will we begin to 
> conceptualize differently?  will we begin to think
> in terms of a larger 
> canvas when we make stuff?
> I hope to God so.


Did someone say "Free Speech"?  

Okay, fine, EXCEPT for the word "conceptualize".  I
hereby outlaw it as useless, jargony, redundant, and unusable.
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