Word: broodingness
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Fatherland is being compared to Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park, set in the Soviet Union, another well-done, shadowed thriller about an honest cop operating within a malign bureaucracy. But Harris' narrative is more unsettling because it erodes our solid past and shows our present to be less than...
Brooding Triumph
Imagine a symphony at once brooding and luminous, tragic and triumphant, spun from a single unending melody in three long, seamless slow movements. Here it is, the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" by HENRYK GORECKI, newly released on Elektra Nonesuch, with David Zinman conducting soprano Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta...
There are lovely toys for adults too. From the 8-ft. logs and 6-ft. andirons in Bruce Wayne's fireplace to the neon lettering (HELLO THERE) on Selina's bedroom wall (which Catwoman alters to read HELL HERE), the picture gives you the chance to luxuriate in a cartoon...
Yet, for all the delicacy of Stone's presentations and the litany of stores and communities that have survived Wal-Mart, there is a brooding inevitability about the data in Stone's studies. Small communities of static population sooner or later lose business from their downtowns to Wal-Mart, which...