Word: alienness
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...hunting dog's leg whose living animal nature gets its due in three long and five short strokes of the brush. He does not truckle to King, Infanta or Pope; he does not satirize the dwarfs and idiots kept for the court's amusement. Nothing human is alien to him. Everything is worthy of respect -- a respect whose sign is an unswerving attentiveness. The morality of his art is one of transparency and proud restraint. He was, as all who knew him agreed, a paragon of the phlegmatic temperament: a walking mirror whose reflections could not be argued with...
...Bunting Institute's most recent exhibition. "Present Works" features visiting artists in the Harvard-Radcliffe community. Among those whose works are on exhibit include Priscilla Smith Bracket, with "A Different Vision: Landscape Painting", Barbara Elam-Dimock, with "Interiors of the Northeast". Lynn M. Randolph with "A Return to Alien Roots. Painting Outside Mainstream Western Culture, and Anne Seelback with "Industrial Relics." The Bunting Artists Show is open daily at the Institute Gallery from...
...this the pinnacle of Scott's luscious style or a parody of it? Maybe it's the spectacle of a director running for cover. Scott's last hit was Alien, a decade ago; these days his brother Tony directs the blockbusters (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II). So Black Rain catches a gifted imagist between inspirations, biding his time without quite wasting ours...
...servitude, then from the wrath of a cousin to whom she was betrothed in childhood. At last, impulsively, he vows to save her from the coming chaos. His heart is good, but his head is clouded: he has no thought for the practical realities of her future in an alien land, only for the sweet moment of his own chivalry. Even that fails. In this revamping of Madama Butterfly, Chris cannot get to Kim before heading home...
...This alien world we enter is shown as both merging into the American experience, and as illuminating its more familiar elements. In an Indian neighborhood of New York City, insulated with Hindi video stores and Punjabi fabric shops, Jasmine stifles in an atmosphere of Old World nostalgia. In Iowa, lonely Grandmother Ripplemeyer appreciates Jasmine's Indian sense of strong family ties...