But the spirit of the play -- its flaming indignation -- was fueled by a coincidence: the contemporary plight of Muhammad Ali, who in April 1967 was stripped of his heavyweight title when he refused to be inducted into the Army, having claimed conscientious objector status and famously declared: "I ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong.
In Burkhart's hands, Liz is both signifier to the history of gratification denied women and the unavoidably contemporary plight of the "fag hag" who cannot endure leaving the comfort zone of "safe" men to find a man who desires her.
In text and in a mélange of mediums, the piece expounds on the plight of contemporary artists burdened by financial debt, mainly from student loans, relative to the profiteers of the booming art-as-asset economy.
At 9 p.m., Shea Stadium (not that Shea Stadium), 20 Meadow Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, sheastadiumbk.blogspot.com; $7. (Petrusich) Nas / Damien Marley (Thursday) Recently Nas collaborated with the reggae artist Damian Marley, known as Jr. Gong and a son of Bob Marley, to create "Distant Relatives" (Universal Republic/Def Jam), a kind of concept album about the plight of contemporary Africans.
"When I wrote Now That the Buffalo's Gone I felt that if white people knew of the plight of contemporary Native American people they'd help, and to some extent they did, but to a bigger extent they didn't.
His Amharic plays deal primarily with contemporary Ethiopia, especially with the plight of youth in urban settings and the need to respect traditional morality, as in Crown of Thorns (1959).
The whole enterprise — including a hyperbolic catalog — raises questions about the plight of Italian contemporary artists, the burden of the Renaissance and the human need to proclaim genius, whether the anointment is deserved or not.
The whole enterprise -- including a hyperbolic catalog -- raises questions about the plight of Italian contemporary artists, the burden of the Renaissance and the human need to proclaim genius, whether or not the anointment is deserved.
All together the show raises interesting thoughts about the plight of Italian contemporary artists, the burden of the Renaissance and what may be a peculiarly Italian or at least European need to anoint genius whether it actually exists or not.
Instant gratification has become the plight of our contemporary lifestyles.
So, regardless of your opinion of Steven Slater and what he did, if there's a silver lining to the whole story, it's the spotlight that's been shown on the plight of flight attendants in contemporary aviation.
