Word: dwell
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...well as the overt absurdity of those internal structures as they move through the story, leave the works themselves astride a prism of possibilities—comedy, drama, fantasy, and autobiography. “Synecdoche” flirts with all of these labels and deigns to dwell in their respective cultures from time to time, but ultimately stands apart as a movie about the deconstruction of a character by his environment. At its heart, the story is fundamentally one of displacement. Caden is haunted by the ghosts of his wife and child—the people for whom...
...tried to capture and interpret almost every aspect of human existence, including its dark side. He once famously claimed: "I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For I reside just as much with the dead as with the unborn." While the quote might suggest he preferred to dwell in - and paint from - higher spheres, an ambitious new exhibition aims to show that his work was always rooted in what was going on in the real world...
...most hated show of the year." It was a fancy dive from the most visible platform there could be, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. "William Eggleston's Guide," it was called, as though he were taking you on a tour, but one prone to dwell on the sketchiest roadside attractions. In a photo by Eggleston there might be a sunbeam that sweetly anoints a full dish rack on a white sink. There might also be a dismal suburban tract house or a bunch of plastic bottles scattered across a dirt road. It was a make...
...That a 5ft. 9in. white kid would be seen as a hoops savior is just one cue that the HSM movies dwell in a Disney fantasyland. Another is the obsessively color-coordinated outfits the kids wear to school, and touches of extravagant decor, like Troy's tree house, as big as an Astaire-Rogers Deco suite, redecorated in retro-rustic. (The roof opens too, apparently at voice command.) The biggest leap of make-believe is that the high school experience is wunnnnnderful - though this view is no less reductive than the one, in so many comedies and horror movies, that...
Though undergraduates and graduate students usually dwell in separate spheres at Harvard, students from both groups may find themselves connected through a new pedagogy project that began this fall...