Wednesday night came the main course: the local premiere of "The Heart of the Matter" The first performance took place, under Joffrey auspices, in Iowa City two months ago. In fact, the design-conscious way that the New York artist has chosen to join his provocative images in triptychs may be the least interesting thing about them. Through pointed word-settings and economical and idiomatic instrumental writing, Harbison's own "Mirabai Songs" (1982) offer accessibility and entertainment laced with a poetic eroticism. The Hyatt on Sunset obliged him with just such an opportunity for two nights on a splendid instrument, newly installed in the Silver Screen Jazz Room. If you haven't seen all the films, see the complete Oscar ballot on Page 4 Whatever you do, DO NOT look on Page 89 for the answers That would be sneaky and illegal Across 1 Breakdancer 5 Miss Rheingold Beer of 1948. According to Nancy Fierro, there is no reason why this fine Polish composer should be so neglected. The network said that while a few stories from the old series may be updated, most of them will be new.

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In "Alice Was in Love" for instance, a woman in a stunningly silly hat stares into space with a dazed, slightly nauseated look on her face. Now that "Los Angeles Summer/styrian autumn" a big show of contemporary art from Austria, has settled into the Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park, the Western art world seems to have shrunk to the size of a kumquat. The evening's rough spots were dispensed with at the start, in an overly aggressive reading of the Beethoven Quartet in F minor, Opus 95, wherein the group pressed its naturally light tone to the point of stridency and some scrambled ensemble. . Known since 1980 as Central Ballet of China, the troupe is currently on its first U. S. The large, stylish cast knocks itself out for the relief of innocent merriment.

I had never heard of Holly Prado, for example, and she is very well known here. Roger Workman has been named dean of Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design. In a new plan beginning today, the union will reduce the up-front pay for directors, assistant directors and unit production managers by 50% for movies that cost less than $1. 5 million, and by 40% for feature films that cost between $1. 5 million and $2. 5 million. Tickets for the Sports Arena show go on sale April 19, while Pacific Amphitheatre tickets will be available April 21. has since done hundreds of concerts and recorded three albums that have catapulted it to the front of a new generation of independent American bands that have captured the artistic momentum in rock But Stipe still enjoys coming back here. That indifference is likely to carry over to the home video audience. How I brooded! Confided it to you, diary, then crossed it out Peasant because I delve in the earth, the earth I own.

Berry's life reads like a Hollywood primer of reward and rejection. Ordinary civilized life simply doesn't equip one to deal with an adversary of such preternatural will. His "Dreamsong" (1978, which blends synthesized sounds and recorded natural sounds, has won prizes on both sides of the Atlantic. Being able to help people is one reason she doesn't mind taking on a serious role. The heroine may be a slave girl who becomes a pioneering Red Army soldier (as in "The Red Detachment of Women) or a modern bureaucrat risking the ruin of her own marriage to see that her first love, a victim of the Cultural Revolution, is properly rehabilitated (as in "The Legend of Tianyun Mountain, or an embittered soldier who learns to love the children left in her reluctant charge during the 1949 Communist revolution "Ah, Cradle. One of the most surprising things about all of that is that this important aspect of our way of life has received so little artistic attention Well, L. A.

(Any foreigner was a Zip in New York in 1942, when Armando's father brought his family from Calabria and set up a restaurant in the Bronx) "It combines Lou's insignia with my background" They begin carefully. A sense of isolation grips the Triffids-as well it should, since they come from the world's most isolated major city, Perth. He leaves for Chicago next month, where his new play, "Frank's Wild Years" goes into rehearsals for a June opening (it will be directed by Terry Kinney, a member of the city's prestigious Steppenwolf theater group. Ceramics and numerous small bronzes represent a new direction for Mullican. "Sometimes you can't really tell who's you and who's your character.

The directors are also the most prominent example of Spielberg's relinquishing control. Martine van Hamel oozes suave and imperious glamour in the ballerina role, even when she executes contortions beyond the dignity of most ballerinas Clark Tippet provides a soft yet gutsy counterforce. That belief system precludes sweeping the dead into the bushes-or, presumably, the elderly into warehouses. The pageant, the tableaux spectacle of celebrated artworks, drew approximately 136,000 visitors last summer-a sellout attendance for the 19th straight year-and grossed $2. 5 million.

Lighting Direction: Marc Palius, "Henry Hamilton, Graduate Ghost" ABC. When he was through with his beer he didn't order another; he turned the empty bottle around pensively in his big dry hands. The Cannes jury also awarded its special grand prize for a film of originality to Alan Parker's "Birdy" an American film about a young man who tries to bring his friend, a psychiatric and disabled Vietnam War vet, back to reality. In addition to the plastic beauty of its movements (based on the Humphrey-Weidman tradition, Limon's telling of Shakespeare's tale of treachery and jealousy provides artistically mature dancers with a stunning vehicle for expressing human passion. The basic style of Mayan art puts one in mind of a blending of ancient Egyptian and classic Oriental.

After some years of artistic angst, we are hearing the stirrings of a rekindled interest in rectilinear forms, in the utopian clarity of strict geometric abstraction, and (according to the rhetoric that typically accompanies this mode) in a kind of "pure" painting unencumbered by the extraneous content of narrative, subject matter and imitation of the real world. Len Bedsow, executive director of the Orange County Performing Arts Center, who had been delaying his retirement until a successor could be hired, has quit the post, although officials report "no progress" in finding a new top administrator. "Please" she says, "don't mention the name of the hotel (in your article" Is she joking? Every hotel wants publicity But the manager's not smiling. Starting Sunday, she can be seen on Home Box Office in "Forbidden" starring opposite "Das Boot's" Jurgen Prochnow as a German countess romantically involved with a Jew in World War II Berlin The presentation will be repeated through April 15.

Several years after the death of their parents, four sisters (or perhaps five, Eileen and Rachel are both played by Jane Zingale) meet one Sunday afternoon at their old house in Tustin. Called "Unfinished Business" the production incorporates a wide range of viewpoints on AIDS. "I could have bought all of Liverpool for what we paid for this" Previn muses. It's proof, if proof were needed, that when restaurateurs start serving an unfamiliar cuisine, they don't prepare with a deep study of cookbooks, to say nothing of making a visit to the cuisine's home turf They tend to swipe ideas from each other's restaurants. When Diller moved to Fox, industry observers expected Gordon to be gone in a matter of days However, Gordon survived.

Drinking and driving don't mix in real life But they do on TV. On those nights Hollywood again becomes America's ultimate hometown. Speaking of repetition, the same forces will play the same program at Bridges Hall of Music in Claremont tonight. . He certainly can move his fingers around a keyboard with extraordinary speed and force, and without undue sacrifices in accuracy. "I had 16 hours of tape and a black screen, and then I had to invent a story. And it's 337 pages for only $17. 95, which is a very good ratio for cost per page I also found the book very restful Even, sometimes, boring.