Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...times compellingly, shame, privacy, gallantry and sexual reticence, if not virginity until marriage. Without these, she says, women have lost power, consigned to "dreary hookups" or sexual violence. "We want our 'feminine mystique' back," she writes, "and with it male honor." Sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, modestly attired in dark tights and a calf-length, buttoned-up olive shirtwaist, she elaborates: "Modesty is misunderstood as repression, prudery and evil. But it's about your right to limits without being accused of hang-ups." Holding back, she adds, "is about the erotic, not the neurotic, waiting for the right person...
Robert Brustein's adaptation of Ibsen's writing skids between the deconstructive (he has the master builder claim that he builds "machines for living") and the pedestrian, furthering the productions stance as a dark fable of universal applicability. At times the story of the master builder, at a zenith of reputation and skills, seems to mirror Brustein's own career, except that Brustein "climbs the steeple" with nearly every production. The Master Builder climbs up an icy ladder; it doesn't fall...
...fans were not given the all-too-common, song-by-song tour of the latest album; rather, the Crowes decided to crank up the amps and unleash a rip-roaring set packed with only their greatest hits. Nearly every tune was not only recognizable, but singable. With its dark lighting and smoke-friendly policies, the Orpheum allowed for the eruption of an audience of closet shower singers, creating a wondrously loud cacophony and a light-hearted comradeship. Neighbors throwing high fives, exchanging dance partners, slinging smiles--the concert was the quintessence of feel-good rock...
Morell's best-known series of photographs is based on the camera obscura (Latin for "dark room"). When a room is completely sealed against light except for a tiny hole, an inverted image of the world outside is projected onto the opposite wall. The pinhole camera works on this same principle of optics. Morell seals off the rooms of houses and hotels to make them into camera obscuras, and then sets up his camera inside the room, so as to capture the projected image, distorted by the furnishings of the chosen room, over the course of a long exposure...
Mike Judge, the creator of "Beavis and Butthead" and "King of the Hill," has carved a niche out for himself in the entertainment business. He has a dubious knack for illuminating that side of America which may be better left in the dark. However, in his first live-action feature, Office Space, Judge demonstrates that while he still has an eye for social maladies, he lacks the talent needed to create "real" characters and a credible story...