Word: elegante
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In the '90s, we oscillate between two moral poles. The left brain says, "Nothing human is foreign to me," a dictum that floats in like elegant driftwood from the second century B.C., when the Roman playwright Terence said it. The line describes the ideal state of today's movie and...
Born in New York City in 1923, Lichtenstein served a stint in the Air Force during World War II--which must have laid the ground of his later comic-strip images of gung-ho pilots blasting their enemies from the sky--and then, after studying art at Ohio State University...
An attractive, adulterous man; a woman trying to preserve her family; a child who sees and remembers too much. The same elements presented so coarsely in Soul Food come piercingly alive in Eve's Bayou. From the opening voice-over--"The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years...
Two portraits of his mistress Madeleine serve as elegant examples of this newfound painterly restraint. In "Woman in a Chemise (Madeleine)," Picasso sets his subject's creamy profile against a blue-green background. Yet the layering of the image is so delicate and transparent that body slips into background and...
The fifteen chapters of the book, each of which could stand alone as an elegant short story, pile on thick layers of detail to create an intensely believable and likable character. Information given obliquely in one chapter may be stated directly, as background, four chapters later. But this repetition is...