Word: dust
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While the dust settled on the debate floor and the bright T.V. lights dimmed, a crowded gymnasium next door sprung to life...
...Cartoons in Contempary Art, this exhibit at the Boston Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) examines three generations of popular contemporary artists who have used the images and techniques of cartoons to explore challenging contemporary issues. 2003 ICA Artist Prize winner Douglas R. Weathersby creates site-specific installations that use dust and detritus to meditate on the creative potential of waste and cleanliness, order and disorder. Runs through January 4. $5 students, free after 5 p.m. on Thursday. Boston ICA, 955 Boylston Street...
...dust has settled. The simple facts remain...
Sure, the body count is astronomical, but the picture is so cheeky and ironized that you come to think of all those extras flying through the air as a kind of corps de ballet, people you know are going to dust themselves off and head for the craft service table once the camera stops turning. Meantime, Rodriguez is more than likely choreographing some brilliant variation on a standard action trope. The high point here is El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) and his bride (Salma Hayek), chained together, in a breathtaking escape down the sheer wall of a hotel. It is beautifully...
...Hawkins (Nick Stahl), an escapee from a chain gang, is burying his mother outside her dust-blown shack when the traveling show rolls by. There's more to Ben than he lets on (he can heal the sick by touch), and also more to this carnival. Besides the hootchy-kootchy dancers and bearded lady, there's a real psychic and a comatose but sentient telepath; and Samson answers to an unseen superior known only as "Management," who orders him to hire Ben as a roustabout because "he was expected." Meanwhile, in California, ambitious minister Brother Justin Crowe (Clancy Brown...