Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actress who had been onboard. There was a Teutonic Titanic, a Nazi-financed epic featuring an imaginary German hero. The 1958 British A Night to Remember is still revered for its balance of newsreel realism and humanist pluck. But diving into crowded waters is James Cameron's M.O. Except for The Terminator and The Abyss, all his films have been sequels or remakes, each grander and pricier than the movies that preceded it. What gargantuan retread can be next--History of the World Part...
...Except for an excellent show of his drawings curated by John Elderfield at the Museum of Modern Art in 1988, Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, never had a fair deal from New York museums. The city's cultural establishment viewed him as, well, a California artist--a bit of an outsider, a bit marginal, insufficiently difficult or radical, too easy on the eye, whatever. Diebenkorn, one of the most flintily self-critical artists who ever lived in America, took this in his stride, and his oeuvre (closed, alas, too early) handily answers his detractors. Nobody who cares about painting...
...perhaps such blatant forecasts are necessary for the coagulation of such a massive amount of information. Degas in New Orleans is nearly incomprehensible in the first few chapters; a bewildering array of characters with similar names but little in common except Louisiana are rapidly introduced. Slowly, as the book unfurls, far-flung strands converge, and the book's odd structure eventually makes sense...
...smirking Maenads that she is victorious, too. But who has really lost? The Bacchae are 'empowered,' so to speak, but look at Agave--she loses everything and is destroyed by her so-called 'victory.' At one point in the production, Dionysos smiles and says he loves all humanity except Pentheus, yet an entire city is ruined because some people didn't believe in him. In short, the gods are triumphant, and the people--even the fiendishly independent Bacchae--have to pay the ultimate price...
...have confessed. I am contrite. Every generation should pay for the government services it uses. Robert Louis Stevenson said: "Sooner or later, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences." True, except you will be sitting there, paying my bills...