Word: do-it-yourself
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...veté, that came so effortlessly in his previous works. As silly and loveable as they may be, the characters’ relationships with one another only act as a pasteboard to the service of the plot, which itself acts as an excuse to watch Gondry show off his do-it-yourself wizardry.Then there’s the dialogue. With 2004’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Gondry had assistance from “Adaptation” and “Being John Malkovitch” scribe Charlie Kaufman...
...patrons, the rest of the works cast the central ideas into confusion. After “Arena,” the emphasis is no longer on the gallery definitively recast as theater. The “Hunchback Kit” is a novel idea: a do-it-yourself kit for staging “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”—which actually lacks the do-it-yourself. While about half of the other works in the exhibition are somewhat participatory, the viewer cannot actually use the kit. Without enabling participation, the piece only suggests that...
...She’s pretty much a do-it-yourself person,” D’Souza said...
...quite at the point of injecting ourselves with Botox. But we're definitely on the cusp of a new era of do-it-yourself dermatology. While cosmetics companies such as L'Oral and Avon have for several years been selling souped-up scrubs and exfoliators billed as microdermabrasion kits, and antiwrinkle creams that mimic the effects of dermatologist-delivered aesthetic fillers, this is different. These new treatments are scaled-down versions of the light-based devices used by dermatologists to treat skin ailments, all designed so that a consumer can use them. Even hair removal via an at-home...
...Death Wish. After his wife is murdered and his daughter raped, he is given a gun and, when attacked, kills the assailant, then stalks the city looking for muggers to punish. Reflecting and exploiting urban anxieties, the movie was panned by critics who found it reprehensible - "Poisonous incitement to do-it-yourself law enforcement," Variety proclaimed - and wildly garish. "This doesn't look like 1974," Roger Ebert wrote of Death Wish at the time, "but like one of those bloody future cities in science-fiction novels about anarchy in the twenty-first century...