Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Cimino screwed up. Professional hubris. With his cast and crew, out in Kalispell, Mont., for six months of shooting, Cimino became the compulsive perfectionist. Every detail had to be just so. Every scene had to be BIG. Hey, he was a genius. He was making an epic Western. He was hot. He had an unlimited budget. But a painfully limited talent, $35 million worth of hubris. When the film opened in New York last November it received universally poor reviews. The New York Times called it "an unqualified disaster." The film's distributor, United Artists, withdrew it from...
...about who they may be is stifled by Close's relentlessly forensic approach. The images verify without interpreting; each face is as naked as a body, a piece of unveiled skin with orifices. It is neither blank nor expressive, but simply there-a topographical essay, like a fulsomely detailed map that has somehow acquired the gratuitousness of art. One is sharply reminded, after a little time in this show, that Close's real subject is not people: the heads, as Art Historian Martin Friedman points out in his catalogue essay, are "portraits of photographs," and their aggregation...
...internationally renowned teacher of violin who in 35 years at the Juilliard School of Music taught many of today's leading violinists, including Itzhak Permian, Pinchas Zuckerman, Kyung-wha Chung, James Buswell and Jaime Laredo; of a heart attack; in New York City. A stickler for technical detail who nevertheless encouraged each student to develop his own stylistic individuality, Galamian once said that he urged his charges "to study for the love of music, not with the hope of glory. People can get tired of glory, but not of something they love...
...mega-image that does not exist and cannot be conjured up by running garage sales of the junk stored in his unconscious. But so intent is the director on this onanistic quest that he has long since forgotten that truth in art arises from the patient accretion of telling detail, distilled observation, and, in maturity, a certain ironic composure. -By Richard Schickel
...being too lenient with the Reagan administration. "The press must be careful not to let the president slip by. Reagan has been very successful at this." He pointed to Reagan's accelerated decontrol of oil prices as an issue he feels the press should have addressed in more detail...