Word: elements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Paramount teamed them for six more pictures. But Von Sternberg was a Svengali who used his Trilby less as a performer than as another element in his lush decor -- and an androgynous one at that. It suited him to dress her in white tie and tails (and to have her kiss a woman before she embraced Gary Cooper in Morocco). At first Dietrich fit into Hollywood's pantheon of sexual ambiguity somewhere between Greta Garbo and Mae West. Von Sternberg did nothing to soften her exotic sexual challenge or penetrate her masklike countenance, both of which were largely his creations...
Walley, who estimates that nearly 100 Harvard students will show up at Tufts, said the sleep-out will provide "an activist element that we don't usually have at PBH. It is much more of making a statement about homelessness...
...some, the gospel element of our repertoire was the most enjoyable. After the performance, many commented on the power and spirituality of these great Negro songs, born out of the pain and oppression of a proud people. You did not have to be Black to understand. You did not have to be a Christian to understand. By the presence of the three French women whom I met after the concert, I gather that you did not even have to speak English. The message in the music transcends such bounds...
...imagined the trip as a grand search for details. Everthing we encountered along the way--every individual, every attraction, even every pitstop--would become a single element within a broad picture of the South...
...only remotely plausible interpretation of this play--if there is one at all--is that is an old-fashioned tale of Love and Loss. There may even be an element of progression here, moving from the beatific harmony of the opening scene to the chaotic disintegration and orgiastic simulated sex and the final tangled mass of exhausted, motionless flesh...