Word: fatherness
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...Downey was born in New York City's Greenwich Village, the son of an underground filmmaker and an actress. They divorced when he was 13. Downey was acting in his father's films-and partaking in his father's drugs-before he hit his teens. He learned his craft by osmosis. "I did the entire Sanford Meisner process just by hanging around and smoking weed in the stairways with my friends who had just gotten back from class," Downey says. "They'd tell me the exercises. It seemed like inevitably they wound up screaming and crying-screaming at each other...
More than one critic has argued that Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is the father of modern art - a pioneer in his searing portrayal of the dark side of human nature, and in his uncanny ability not only to capture the horrors of his own age but to foreshadow the atrocities to come. If earlier generations have found in the Spanish painter's work clues to their own iconography of despair (The Third of May as a precursor of Picasso's Guernica, the Black Paintings as preparation for images of Auschwitz), the Prado's "Goya in Times...
...pointedly used the English word "leader," rather than its Russian equivalent of Vozhd - because the Russian term is still closely associated with Stalin. The careful choice of words doesn't change the message, though. Indeed, some 70 years ago, urban legend has it that a little boy asked his father about Stalin. The father duly explained that Stalin was this country's Vozhd. "That's weird," the precocious progeny mused aloud. "I gathered from books that only primordial tribes needed a Vozhd. Civilized countries have constitutional governments...
Sitting under a vast photograph of her father's hand?"My father was always very careful about how he touched silk"?Ratti is ensconced in her office in the new headquarters, built in 1999. Like her father, Ratti is a sharp businessperson with a passion for the creative process. She pays frequent visits to clients like John Galliano at Dior and listens to their ideas and vision to glean ideas of her own. "You listen a lot, but you also propose a lot," she says. Depending on the designer Ratti is dealing with, it can go either way. Some...
...vaudeville MC in the second act. Tam, who starred in last term’s production of “Urinetown,” successfully managed to belt out a number of Yiddish songs while prancing about. Caplan, whose roles in the play ranged from Jewish immigrant father to wannabe tango star, deserves a special mention for his performance as well. Caplan was especially adept in his role as a disgruntled Jewish husband, demanding variety from his wife’s constant culinary reliance on potatoes. Unfortunately for him—but to the audience’s amusement?...