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Bermudez is a photography-based installation artist and many of her pieces make use of old photographs transferred to glass, cloth or steel. However, these photographs are rarely perfectly visible or in good condition; they are often purposely deteriorating or simply difficult to see. They represent vanishing memories, most of them images from Bermudez’s childhood, including several photos of herself and her family. Viewers have to manipulate a set of lamps made available to them in order to reflect the images from the glass etchings onto the wall; only by doing this will they be able...
...heart failure; in Los Angeles. Born to vaudeville folk, he played straight man to a talking mule in six popular Francis movies and won an Emmy for an early TV series. In the Make 'em Laugh number in Singin' in the Rain, he made mock love to a cloth dummy, did backflips off a wall and then hurtled through it--still smiling--in the greatest comic dance solo in film history...
...this is not to say that the production has no good qualities. The set, designed by Sergey Barkhin, is too busy but is creatively employed; a single piece of scenery, such as a large gray drop cloth, variously becomes a bed sheet, a snowbank and hotel upholstery. The music, composed by Leonid Desyatnikov, is catchy if far too loud. Michael Chybowski, the lighting designer, creates beautiful scenes of glowing parasols, gleaming water and golden dust against the black background of the stage. The actors, especially Waterston as the beautiful and fiercely determined young adulteress, are all competent, though their frenetic...
...range from the mundane to the obscure. He keeps a large container of Li Hing powder handy. “It’s made from dried prunes, salt, and sugar. It’s great on popcorn,” he says. Next, Zimmerman shows off a small cloth bag filled with Hawaiian rock salt. He picks up a small container and fondly says, “Hungarian paprika. This is pretty standard...
...don’t make these charges cavalierly,” Finkelstein said. “But I feel very strongly in this case. And it is a disgrace of a book—if this book was made not out of paper but out of cloth, I wouldn’t even use it as a shmatte...