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...almost a century. But his own paintings were much less formalized than Kōrin's. Hōitsu was an exquisite observer of small events: a patch of lichen on the pale bark of a branch, rendered with a diffused blot of malachite green; the lively flutter of peony leaves, each surrounded, with a kind of inlaid distinctness, by a barely noticeable fringe of untouched background...
...culturally hip American or European what ongaku means, and he will reply that it is the Japanese word for music. He will no doubt be thinking of the silken flutter of the 13-stringed koto or the modal mysteries of the pentatonic scale. Ask a Japanese, and he will tell you that ongaku means Beethoven, Mozart, Western-style symphony orchestras and, last week most of all, the Metropolitan Opera of New York...
...Anastasia, Natalia Bessmertnova-one of the most lyrical ballerinas in the world-has little to do but flutter her graceful arms and look demure. The only multidimensional character is Ivan, a role danced at the premiere by Yuri Vladimirov. An extraordinarily lithe actor with a frazzled mane and long simian arms, Vladimirov in his mad scenes looked oddly like a bemused orangutan who had suddenly been set loose from a zoo. That effect was heightened in the ballet's unintentionally ludicrous climax, when the paranoid Czar, hopelessly entangled among bell ropes, dangles above a crowd of foot-stomping peasants...
...Continent had its drawbacks. "Life there is just too difficult to cope with," she said. This month Genevieve must go to Italy to film Brian de Palma's Deja Vu, but she will come home to Malibu not Montreal. As she explained: "Scripts don't just flutter down with the snowflakes in Montreal...
...most difficult roles, the young innocent tortured by ambitions created for him by his mother and his society, ambitions frustrated by the Depression, and he faces it with the least amount of experience. But he carries off the part of Ralph with enough expertise to make heartbeats flutter when he proclaims his new resolve: "Maybe we'll fix it so life won't be printed on dollar bills...