But some stores found the new direction too minimalist for the spirit of the brand, and chose either to reduce their buying or not to buy at all.
Under Michael Grandage's gimlet-eyed direction, this minimalist production brings out the shattering core of Mr. Nichols's thesis: that adultery, as the straying husband in the play suggests in a semantic meditation, adulterates, fragmenting lives and polluting tranquillity.
"The accepted wisdom about Woody is that he is a minimalist director … [But] Woody's thing is always that if an actor wants direction from him, he'll give it.
He's a minimalist when it comes to stage directions and decor.
Artists used welding to branch off in any number of directions, including Abstract Expressionist, Minimalist, Pop and other representational and abstract modes.
In fact, under the bold direction and design of John Doyle, this minimalist re-imagining is almost unbearably exciting.
He praised what he called one of Duvall's most understated performances, as well as Foote's minimalist storytelling and the restraint and patience of Beresford's direction.
While his musical peers were pushing towards big, dramatic expression, Daniel Bell's track "Losing Control" (under his alias DBX) went in the opposite direction, employing a looping, filtered vocal to hypnotic, minimalist perfection.
And Peter Van Zandt Lane's "Magana," with a repeating, syncopated clarinet figure taken up contrapuntally in the cello and percussion writing, was one of several student works that used Minimalist techniques as a springboard but headed off in different directions.
