Word: almost
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stare-offs with bottles, or moments of temptation and ultimate white-knuckled resolve in front of seedy liquor stores next to check cash-ins. Loach instead wisely lets Joe's successes speak for themselves, their very modesty giving them a fragility; at one point Joe's safe wallpapering gig almost spins into disaster when a welfare agent snaps telephoto pics to expose his outside earnings (Joe paints the agent's car). Mullen's performance is ultranaturalistic and eerily dead-on in a flashback to the bad old days (one of the really few directorial intrusions, narrated in hauntingly matter...
...early 1950s that our Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission working in Hiroshima observed an increased incidence of leukemia among individuals exposed to the atomic bomb--a puzzling observation because these cases did not emerge for several years after the detonations. There was also almost no understanding of the phenomenon called fallout...
Statements like his raised our consciousness, albeit tardily, and led almost immediately to the establishment in medical research institutions of the human studies committees that now regulate ethical aspects of human experimentation...
...Contemporary Interactions" is almost misnormer when it comes to describing the work of Abelardo Morell. A professor at the Massachusetts College of Art, Morell manipulates light through one of the oldest optical tricks in the book--you have never seen wallpaper like this. An inverted Manhattan skyline spans the walls of an empty room in one large photograph; on the other side of the gallery's entrance, grayscale clapboard houses cascade behind the dimpled shadows of a rumpled bed. The result is spellbinding. Forget the brainless integration of disparate images accessible to anyone with Adobe Photoshop; Morell wields a technique...
...Boston Conservatory of Music for a concert I was determined not to miss. Jumping up the steps, I asked a guard behind the desk the way to the Concert Room and squirmed in just in time. The grandly named Concert Room is tiny, wood paneled and elegant, divided almost in half by a low stage. Some 40 people had squashed themselves into about 60 square feet, backed against the walls or seated on folding chairs. On the stage was another folding chair, a music stand and a lute...