Word: designators
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retrospect illuminates the book's design, it obscures its ostensible subject. "This is a Degas we do not know well," Benfey notes of the not yet very famous man who stayed with the Mussons, and Benfey does not help us know this Degas any better. What Benfey instead introduces with his dense detail is a city peculiarly conducive to creativity. By turns menacing and nurturing, the New Orleans of the 1870s lurks behind every knotty relationship and every political machination of Degas' relatives, behind every story of Chopin's or Cable's and behind many of Degas' works...
Moreover, the design of the comic is very film-like--the panel designs often resemble "storyboards," or the way in which the action of animated films is laid out, more than they do conventional comics. The story itself, along with its universe of pop-culture causality, features characters who are archetypes straight out of genre films: mobsters, samurai, sexy female assassins. And each "episode" of "Scud" is dedicated to a director in whose style the issue is cast: from Quentin Tarantino to Jim Henson to "the memory of Orson Welles...
Since Nov. 2, Keene has worked in the window of the Goldie Paley Gallery at the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, where hordes have waited for the paint to dry on his festively colored works. He has sold all 2,000 paintings he brought with him from his studio in Brooklyn, plus several hundred new ones. They've been carted away by senior citizens, children, homemakers and business people, who slip folded bills into an honor box. Keene, who works 12 hours a day to meet the demand, charges $1 to $5 per painting...
...important deal with Sony, Jackson's record label. Jackson will serve as producer for a new label called MJJ (for Michael J. Jackson), which will release CDs by new singers and groups. The Alwaleed-Jackson company also acquired 55% ownership of Landmark Entertainment Group, famous for such design projects as the Forum shops at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and the Terminator II 3-D ride at Universal Studio's park in Orlando, Fla. Sony continues to produce Jackson's music, including his latest album, Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory...
...castle has been completed. To regild the plaster, 500,000 sheets of gold leaf were used. Replacing the ceiling of St. George's Hall required 350 mature oaks. The ceiling that the fire destroyed dated from the 1820s, and Prince Charles, believing it was "awful," called for a new design. In a personal touch, Prince Philip made a sketch with a fireman working to save the building, and that became the basis for a new stained-glass window...