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...makes him plausibly sympathetic. To understand is to forgive, they say in France, and by poring through the unpublished notebooks of both Chatwin and his friends, by talking to seemingly everyone who knew him and by training his novelist's urbanity on all this, Shakespeare shows how the dandified collector of odd treasures could honestly mooch off duchesses while maintaining that one should live like a Mauritanian nomad...
...wanted to make a film about believable people doing believable things in unbelievable ways," Egoyan has always said about The Adjuster. After seeing the film, a wicked black comedy that involves an insurance adjuster, film censors, an ex-football player, a lamp merchant, a podiatrist, and a butterfly collector among others, critic Roger Ebert mused that Egoyan must love puzzles, paradoxes, and card tricks...
...seems more dependent on the play of language than visual ingenuity. A number of her found objects make this particularly clear, such as Breath of a Librarian, a deflated black balloon found in the reading room of the British Library. Works like this might lead us to wonder whether collector, rather than sculptor, might be a better description for Parker...
...human relationships--"pictures about the future of life and the struggle we've been through"--wrought from roots, animal carcasses, discarded wire, rope, tin, wood, carpet, plastic and house paint. Despite his compulsion to create, Dial had always been shy about his art. That changed in 1987, when collector Bill Arnett discovered Dial's work and started buying it up. Shows and commissions followed. Now Dial's art sells for tens of thousands of dollars and is shown in museums across the country. For the first time, Dial is financially comfortable. A man of few words, he acknowledges a modest...
...First word of a political protester's cry 2 In ___ land (spacy) 3 YOU ___ HERE 4 Needle-nosed fish 5 Pouch 6 Astrologer Sydney 7 F.D.R.'s pooch 8 Lint collector 9 Tread the boards 10 Like Bill Bradley 11 Perpetrate 12 Windsor's prov. 17 Space-bar neighbor 19 Belfry denizen 20 "Hello" or "Goodbye" 21 Send to Siberia 22 Freeh men? 23 Elemental suffix 24 Second Amendment defender: abbr. 26 Org. that sued Koch Industries for $30M for oil spills 27 Time Warner exec Turner 28 "___ longa, vita brevis" 30 Some musical ensembles 32 According to 35 Part...