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...anecdotal film, it is a disturbing experience. Jarman is a painter and director associated with the beautiful and strinking visual images in films like "The Last of England," "Caravaggio," and "Wittgenstein" (which was recently shown at the Harvard Film Archives). He has stripped his work to a bare minimum. "In the pandemonium of image," he states at one point, "I present you with the universal door of blue...
...Merwe has a picture of a bare-breastedwoman wearing beads on his wall, eight graduatestudents and a faculty member say. Some studentssay they find the picture offensive...
...rooms reflect a great deal of personality, personal needs and tastes," she says. "Some people feel comfortable in a bare room, which I totally understand. Some people feel comfortable in much more elaborate surroundings...
...when gender specificity is taken to an extreme, it can undo the very goals it seeks to achieve. Stripping words down to their bare essentials can lead to a vague, nondescriptive--and practically useless--form of language. Imagine the birth of the human race told in gender neutral terms: God caused the person to fall into a deep sleep and took one of its ribs and closed flesh around it. God built the rib taken from the person into a person...This will be called a person, for from a person was it taken. Clearly, neutering language has its limits...
...works to a song's disadvantage if it's too explicit," says Jackson Browne. "A song is like an instrument, like a guitar. Once it is built, it can be played by anyone." The music on Browne's new album, I'm Alive (Elektra), is so extraordinarily bare-hearted and openhanded, his lyrics so steady in their power, that the songs transcend the personal, working themselves into the listener's memory...