Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NELL BLAINE: RECENT OILS AND WORKS ON PAPER, Fischbach Gallery, New York City. Forty-eight works by a premier U.S. artist whose spontaneous brushstrokes and brilliant colors enrobe nature in a tender intimacy. Through April...
...blame what might be called "Lone Star ethics" -- the symbiotic relationship between the freewheeling Texas business establishment and the state's political leadership that has created an environment where only suckers remain squeaky clean. As Washington Post columnist David Broder put it, "The Texas system has ruined more brilliant political figures than larger states such as California and New York have been capable of producing in the postwar period...
This may be true, but parody is also an extremely difficult technique to master, and in the case of Green's film Video Sickness, the amount of hard work put into the project only occasionally results in brilliant humor...
...commercial project, Wired has its problems. Belushi, the brilliant, volatile star of Saturday Night Live and films like National Lampoon's Animal House, has become a posthumous icon, a symbol of the raucous counterculture comedy that Saturday Night Live spearheaded in the '70s. But cinematic tales of drug abuse (Less Than Zero, Clean and Sober) have fizzled at the box office, and Wired is an especially downbeat example. What's more, with Belushi's work so vividly remembered (and still widely available in TV reruns), a movie re-creation might seem morbidly gratuitous, even by Hollywood standards...
...long, attenuated career covered the spectrum, from classics to commercials. Old- timers still remember his controversial rejiggerings of Shakespeare and his War of the Worlds radio drama, which had many listeners believing New Jersey had been invaded by Martians. And, of course, every generation has embraced Citizen Kane, his brilliant 1941 film based on the life and times of press lord William Randolph Hearst...