Word: aura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Garbo stand-in has a mysterious aura,(she remains faceless during the sequence), her meeting with Bancroft is anti-climatic. Bancroft, however, manages to pull it off for both of them, as her dying Estelle describes everything in her own decisively realistic terms. "I went to Paris too", she tells the movie goddess, "only you went with Aristotle Onassis and I went with the B'Nai Brith tour...
...even nice guys can get tough in times of war. For instance, in one scene Kinski is shown simultaneously ordering a PLO girl killed and calling his wife "to check up on family news." His understated brutality--he always seems on the edge of exploding--teamed with his paternal aura save scenes like this from heavy-handedness. In many ways, this is his film...
...feminist critics of Holy Scripture, there is something grievously wrong with the beginning of the Twenty-Third Psalm in traditional translation. "The LORD is my shepherd" has a distinctly male aura to it. Far better, say the critics, to render David's words in a neutral way: "God is my shepherd." Similarly, sexism is allegedly rampant in the commandment given to Moses, "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife." Fairness would dictate an even-handed condemnation by adding "or husband...
...jacket, pulled down his tie and pounded on the lectern. Yet even when giving impassioned speeches in his shirtsleeves, he still appeared, particularly on television, to be stiff, mechanical and uninspiring. Despite his strong social conscience and heartfelt political convictions, Mondale often seems incapable of conveying an aura of zeal or inspiring passion...
Because his scenes were bathed in an aura of privilege, many people still think of him as a court painter. Nothing could be further from the truth. After he died, Watteau's work appealed irresistibly to the high and mighty of Europe: Frederick the Great of Prussia had no fewer than 89 paintings by or in the manner of Watteau in his palaces at Potsdam, Sans Souci and Charlottenburg. Alive, Watteau had no time for courts, and little access to them anyway. He sensibly preferred the theater, whose troupes and characters he painted so often, shifting them from...