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Here crystallization means not so much synthesis and formation as a mode of representation in which objects are viewed as though through a crystal. His images, especially in "Bird Cloud" (1926), appear refracted. Rather than showing various perspectives at once as the Cubists attempted to do, Feininger merely wanted to accentuate and flatten light planes, exaggerating them like a caricaturist would and rendering each with a different solid block of color before reassembling the pieces...
...Neil Young, The Monkees. "The album marks a new high point for the 40-year-old Wilson, who over the past two decades has become America's most important and daring jazz vocalist," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Her voice has the heavy, rolling darkness of a storm cloud, but Wilson isn't given to flashy lightning vocals. She finds emotion in restraint -- her voice murmurs low like distant thunder, or strikes a brief, bright note, like sunlight after rain. New Moon Daughter stands as Wilson?s most emotionally rewarding album, a mellow but challenging crescendo of themes from...
...movies (including a forthcoming John Travolta film) and a recent series of scary, attention-getting commercials by attention-needing presidential candidate Richard Lugar. Of course, the appeal of nuclear weapons to terrorists is obvious: if destabilizing society or drawing attention to one's cause is the goal, a mushroom cloud outranks truck bombs and sarin attacks...
...WILD REEDS Young love rarely seemed so tormented or rapturous as it does in Andre Techine's memory film. Political rivalries cloud a bucolic French town and Algerian war drums beat, but the main convulsions are romantic. A great date movie for teens with high sat scores and overheated hearts...
...EINSTEIN STRIKES AGAIN Although it was predicted by Albert Einstein 70 years ago, scientists have just now found a new form of matter, called a Bose-Einstein condensate. By cooling a cloud of rubidium atoms almost to absolute zero (-459.67ˇF), the physicists forced them to march in lock-step formation, just as Einstein said they would...