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...Hollywood nothing lasts long -- except the work. Lynch has earned his 15 minutes of celebrity with 15 years of the strangest characters and most hallucinogenic images an American filmmaker ever committed to celluloid. His early career traced a paradigmatic arc of hotshot movie eminence, from a $20,000 underground classic (Eraserhead in 1977) to a $5 million Oscar nominee (The Elephant Man in 1980) to a $50 million sci-fi dud (Dune in 1984). Each film had segments of bafflement and spectral beauty. But Hollywood, looking at the escalating price tags and plummeting ticket sales, wrote the director...
...majority of the better businesses have left," he continues, sweeping his arms in a vague arc meant to indicate the square's perimeter. "The malls have taken people away--easier shopping...
MAURICE PRENDERGAST, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Prendergast evolved from a sign painter to one of the pathfinders of post- impressionism in the U.S. This retrospective traces the full arc of his progress. Through Sept...
Stan Evans traces an arc in Quayle's career of rising (if belatedly) to expectations. The angle of the arc must now go up, dramatically. Quayle was born not only roughly a quarter-century after any preceding President; he spent another quarter-century blissfully AWOL from history. His press secretary, David Beckwith, calls the Vice President a "classic late bloomer" -- which means that the first three decades or so of his life do not matter, just the last decade. That is starting late even for a faster learner than Quayle has given evidence of being. How can he "rise...
...purest shooters I've ever coached," Delaney Smith says. "Her range is much further than the three-point arc. She limits the type of defense an opponent...