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...mother and daughter face off like two ferrets in a small cage; behind their petty tauntings and quick-paced reportage of insults, one can see how intent each woman is on destroying the other. Susan Zeeman Roger's set-dirty and sparsely furnished, with a rain machine adding a backdrop of perpetually cruddy weather-provides the perfect reflection of the relationship between Mag and Maureen. Just as their mutual goading becomes an self-perpetuating cycle of bitterness, so too is the wretched set part of this cycle; it is both the cause and the effect of such festering enmity...
With a collection this big, you get to compare iconic shots like George Hoyningen-Huene's Seated Divers from around 1930--a man and woman seated at the end of a diving board, backs turned to us and peering out at a painted-backdrop sea--with instant classics like one of Rineke Dijkstra's hypnotic pictures of single figures standing upright against the horizon at real beaches around northern Europe. The Hoyningen-Huene is one of the psychic landmarks of fashion photography, a picture in which the clothes matter less than the canny mood, both aerodynamic and dreamy. Dijkstra...
Against the backdrop of a giant airbrushed mural of waves crashing against striated rocks, the U.S. Secretary of State smiled as North Korean protocol officers bustled her unceremoniously from one spot to another in the western building of the One Hundred Flowers Blooming Guest House. Then the attendants joined senior U.S. aides and other North Korean officials on the periphery, leaving America's most powerful woman standing all alone in the center of the room, shifting uneasily on her feet...
...while we're on the subject of golf metaphors, let me turn your attention to The Legend of Bagger Vance, the latest directorial effort from Academy Award-winner Robert Redford. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, it's the mystical story of a golfer in search of his swing and his soul, and the caddy who helps light the way. It doesn't take an English concentrator to find the metaphor in that. Of course, the trouble with metaphors is that you can only take them so far. After all, not everybody plays golf (in fact, most people...
...average Harvard student, Cambridge is little more than a backdrop to the drama of college life. Every year, thousands of students eat pizza at Pinocchio's, buy tuxedos at Keezer's and stroll through the Common, but the closest they usually come to Cambridge residents is across a cash register...