Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before Thanksgiving, Gerald Ford said: "I'm primarily thankful for the fact that this country is at peace." Ford should be able to express similar thanks this Christmas...
...Pound called "Vorticism The (theoretical) aim of the group, as Pound saw it, was "to portray the idea of motion itself." Kupka began trying to capture motion through the vibrancy of color; in "Newtonian Disks" (1912) the pure tones, reds, blues, yellows, are liberated from form. They no longer express the form of an object, but establish their own rhythm, make their own music...
Multimillion-dollar movies are usually open to the press as they are being made; their heavy tread can be heard clumping toward the theaters for a year prior to release. Kubrick's locations, however, were closed. Not a single publicity still emerged without the director's express approval, which was almost never granted. Thus the only word on Barry Lyndon came from actors and technicians, none of them privy to Kubrick's vision, and some wearied and literally sickened by his obsessive perfectionism...
...NEED NOT turn beyond the first photograph in this book to understand that cameraman James Klosty could not possibly express more about choreographer Merce Cunningham than that he's an enigma. That first photograph silhouettes Cunningham--turned from the waist, arms stretched overhead, legs rooted apart--like a Klee stick figure, or a Giacometti spider-thin nude, or maybe a twentieth-century version of the Renaissance icon: man as the measure of all things...
Dunn's point is one that photographer/editor Klosty takes seriously. Klosty is unsure if words or photographs can express much significant about Cunningham, and he says so in his introduction (which makes one wonder why he published the book in the first place). He skirts the risk of coffee-table gloss only by possessing enough sense to include Caroyn Brown's reminiscences; even so, the substance in Merce Cunningham is outweighed by its shine...