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...last exhibit space of the museum, there is a gallery of portraits of current members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, with quotes from many of them. All of these photographs depict people whom I would visually identify as either white or black, not Indian. Below the photograph of Regina Kirchner, whom I would identify as white, reads the following: "My mother never talked about being Pequot, so it's hard for me to have this feeling about being Indian. I really feel I'm living between two worlds, you might say. I'm trying to get back some...

Author: By Robert J. Coolbrith, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Reservation for One: One man, one hundred dollars and 15 hours at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...then suddenly, once it had been outlawed, torture began showing up on stage. It seems like as soon as torture stopped occurring in society, it became safe to depict it on stage...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling 101: Oh, the humanity! | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...effect silent pictures; they are certainly moving pictures, for they tell stories of people drawn toward death or transfiguration. Bresson was preoccupied with the mysterious workings of God's will, with saints ground down by sinners; Diary of a Country Priest and The Trial of Joan of Arc depict a state of grace under pressure. But all his attractive heroes, whether explicitly religious or not, are trudging up their own private Calvary. In Mouchette, the beautifully pitiless story of a teenage outcast so maladroit that she must try three times before she succeeds in drowning herself, the girl's schoolmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: ROBERT BRESSON | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...draw a fine sheep upon a rock. A more likely tale has him haunting Cimabue's Florentine bottega until the painter made him an apprentice. There Giotto absorbed his mentor's strength of drawing and sense of drama, but nature was his true teacher. He divined how to depict, with brush and pigment, the human body according to the prescription of St. Francis: "Your God is of your flesh. He lives in your nearest neighbor, in every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 14th Century: Giotto (c. 1267-1337) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...dozing off to depressing, somber tunes about love, relationships and the strife between men and women crooned by famous artists such as Smash Mouth, Duncan Sheik and Lisa Loeb, the highlight of the record is most certainly the sound bites of the dialogue from the series itself. Although these depict the atrocious acting skills of Jennifer Aniston and the like, they break up the droning monotony of the songs...

Author: By Kelley E. Morrell, | Title: Album Review: Friends Again soundtrack | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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