Word: dots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...area filled with block upon block of abandoned warehouses. Artists, attracted by the cheap rents and wide-open industrial spaces, began moving in in the early 1970s. However, artists are the unwilling shock troops of gentrification, followed into once-gritty neighborhoods by young professionals who drive up the rent. Dot-coms have begun to move into the area in the last several years, and, because of the city's multi-billion dollar South Boston Waterfront project and ensuing private development, these are probably the last days of Fort Point as an artists' community. Of course, this is a story played...
...dream world of the next few scenes vanishes the next night, a rainy and cold evening and Esteban's birthday. Affonso Beato, director of photography, employs clever technique interposing dot matrix drawings of women in red over Manuela's image. Similarly, the night's coldness is reflected in camera angles of rain on the windows and fog in mirrors. One can almost feel the chill of the evening on one's shoulders. This clammy sensation follows the viewer as Manuel and Esteban observe a performance of Streetcar Named Desire, a play holding special significance to Manuela. Twenty years before, Manuela...
...lead did not last the period. Vermont scored two goals within 38 seconds late in the first to tie the score. Both goals--a long slap shot from the left point by Jim Gernander and a soft wrist shot from behind the right face-off dot by J.F. Caudron--were shots that Jonas probably should have...
...that invisible border does more than simply change the street signs from green to blue. It acts as a type of psychological time warp, taking this traveler out of Cambridge 1999 and delivering her into an industrial 1950s town. Instantly, an influx of dilapidated, mint-green, triple-decker houses dot the streets and countless abandoned businesses with fading airbrushed signs line up next to one another...
...headquarters are located in a brick furniture warehouse with one main room, empty of furniture except for a few metal folding chairs. A few "Bill Bradley for President" signs dot the walls, but other than that, the only decoration is the linoleum floor...