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...fashion pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair continues his studies of the form and figure. The Surrealist ambitions of Couturier's De Chirico-like mannequins, with their featureless faces and heavily textured plaster surface, apparently appealed to Wols. Cloth is more carved than draped as the mannequins cavort and tremble at their shadows, which chase them among the neoclassical columns that decorated their stages and pedestals...
...fashion pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair continues his studies of the form and figure. The Surrealist ambitions of Couturier's De Chirico-like mannequins, with their featureless faces and heavily textured plaster surface, apparently appealed to Wols. Cloth is more carved than draped as the mannequins cavort and tremble at their shadows, which chase them among the neoclassical columns that decorated their stages and pedestals...
...best description there is for it. Yet another man-remakes-woman Eliza Dolittle story. Yet Another dork-becomes-diva Clueless yarn. Yet another token effort to lightly evaluate the competitive arenas of cutthroat youth culture, a la Varsity Blues. Yet another excuse for beautiful Clearasil poster children to cavort in trendy togs and perform breathtaking cell phone stunts. It screams designer soundtrack and even more designer reality, every honest fiber of your being wants to oppose it. In your snider moments, you deprecate that you could write this screenplay your-self. Let's be honest about it: Robert Iscove...
...time when acts like 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys cavort in the upper reaches of the charts like kids atop a treehouse, a CD such as Taming the Tiger, whose title song was inspired by 18th century poet William Blake, is a tough sell--unless you're selling it to fans of 18th century English poetry. But Joni will be Joni when the trends have trended out. To paraphrase Blake, she still burns bright...
...what makes Maddux so good, and why haven't you heard as much about him as about the sluggers? The two questions are related. Off the field, Maddux doesn't cavort with celebrities or even do endorsements. "I could be more Hollywood," he told TIME before a game last week, "but that ain't me." His family, golf and Nintendo are more...