Word: elegante
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This cannot be right--even if it accords with all the experimental evidence. Why? Because it is just too ugly. And everything in our experience tells us that nature abhors ugly. The most powerful and universal laws of nature--Newton's third (action-reaction) or Einstein's e=mc2--are...
The word "tapestry" is often used to describe Altman's films: characters move into and out of importance, now tangentially related to each other, now heavily influencing events. Here, there is less of this elegant dancing, recently highlighted in "Short Cuts."
That, at least, is the way NASA planners hope things will go; so far it looks as if they'll get their wish. The ships that will be used for these ambitious missions are remarkably cheap ones, hammered together from available, off-the-shelf parts. While this makes for less...
Francis Ford Coppola made nudie films; Martin Scorsese's first feature went out on the grind circuit. Meyer (with his giddy editing style), Radley Metzger (who made elegant variations on Euro-smut) and R.L. Frost (a versatile imagist, heavy on the rough stuff) could have played in the majors. But...
As a birthday present each year, little Nagiko's father would write a sensuous sentiment, in elegant Japanese calligraphy, on the child's face. Twenty years later, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) tries to duplicate, erotically, the touch of her father's brush. She challenges her lovers to write their lust all...