Word: fleetingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The binding metaphor of 17th century still life was the vanitas, a term deriving from the text in Ecclesiastes, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." Such images were meant to show the fleeting nature of the world's goods, honors and sensual pleasures, setting them against the terrible perspective of...
Director Mario Van Peebles seeks to round out the persisting image of the Panthers as gun-toting militants, but gives only fleeting recognition to the community services they provided. The film's true focus is on the empowerment that the Black Panthers found by defying their oppressors with arms.
But only for a fleeting moment. Yale immediately asked the referees to check Colligan's stick, and the pouch was ruled to be too deep. It was impounded, and the goal was erased from the scoreboard, leaving Harvard without enough time to get another shot on goal.
I am a man who has had two fleeting brushes with stardom. A brief synopsis and analysis of these two encounters reveals American pop-movie stars to be a bizarre and varied breed. The inevitable products of mass consensus in popular tastes and superficial public whims, these poor souls venture...
For those of us who read intimations of mortality into little things, (such as the fact that we could not possibly tell the difference between, say Beavis and Butthead and, perhaps even more tragically, that we have absolutely no desire to do so, or the fact that we are now...