Basically, though, when a work of theater is good, vital and true to the artistic terms it establishes for itself, you magically push past the language barriers, the way you might if you fell in love with someone who speaks another language.
'That's a picture of Notary Sojac' is an interpretative statement, as are 'That's a picture of a unicorn,' 'The passage refers to Brutus's betrayal of Caesar,' and 'The thesis of Macbeth is exceedingly simple: Thou shalt not kill.' Last, critical evaluations are normative judgments that basically say that a work of art is good or bad, or how good or bad it is.
A silver service is basically a multipart work of cast, functional sculpture; this one happens to be in a French-Viennese version of Neo-Classical style.
I'd always been jealous of painters and sculptors and other visual artists, basically jealous of any artist who worked with something other than words, with paint or foam or metal, jealous of their stained clothes, the small cuts all over their hands — jealous because of my unsophisticated but unshakable sense that a work of visual art is more real, more actual, than writing.
"My first shoes, 30 years ago, were a pair of Royal Robbins, basically a pair of work boots with hard Vibram soles," said Michael Dimitri, a former climbing instructor, who has scaled rocks from Kyrgyzstan to Argentina.
"It's a sad state of affairs that city lawmakers would have to basically institutionalize the work of charitable organizations in order to confront the state's bail crisis," he added.
But Mr. Arafat, standing alongside General Powell, said that "no government can basically erase the work of the previous government".
"It's basically the complete work of Charlie Parker in the studio before Norman Granz got his hands on him," said Mr. Keepnews, referring to the impresario of the Verve label, who recorded Parker through 1954.
So NASA has developed these robots to basically do the work of humans.
There were some tough days and there weren't, but it's just basically a lot of hard work.
