Word: fogging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-distance echoes of Impressionism and of the sequential-position photography that was once copied by the Italian Futurists. In these, as in the drawings from this period, form is extremely provisional -- the shape of a body teetering on a bicycle, for instance, emerges out of a kind of fog produced by approximate lines, each an attempt to fix some aspect of that shape...
...insulting level of metaphor is sustained not only in the script but also in some of the direction. Men in large white spacesuits wander in and out during set changes, accompanied by billows of mechanical fog. These creatures are the exterminators sent by the government to ward off the plague of red spiders that is reported to be approaching the city. Later, a large red spider is lit and throbbing above carnival dancers in a comical dance scene that probably was meant to be erotic. These and other elaborate ploys, while potentially meaningful, are more likely to make you giggle...
DiCiccio says Adams, Eliot and Dunster, which sponsored the party, spared no expense or time on the costume party renting even a fog machine to create a club atmosphere...
...heart, Anna Christie is about parents and children. O'Neill's actor father James died a few months before the play was written, and in it you can see Eugene -- the tramp poet in a fog, the son who ran away to sea -- raging at a dying generation's prejudices before reconciling himself to the people who hold them. In a subtler way, Richardson has donned the mantle of her incandescent mother, Vanessa Redgrave. By evening's end, the young star has settled onto the old O'Neill sofa. Why, they might have been made for each other...
...Palestinians. The results usually make for heart-wrenching, out-of-context, 30 second news clips on American TV. I won't dispute this. However, the Israeli-Palestinian situation is an extremely complex one, with a long history to it. It is not black and white, but rather a confusing fog of gray...