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...sweatshirt, baggy jeans. She is bright, well-read and terribly out of kilter. "I need to be in a normal situation around normal people," she says. One moment Rachel is cogent and socially deft, the next she is twitchy and incoherent. "I just want to be out in the forest by myself. I want people to leave me alone, so I tell them I'm O.K. and go my own way. But I get a block away and lose it. I freak...
WATCHING Gorky Park is like taking a long walk though an endless forest on a cold wintry day as the snow and ice-leaden branches slap our faces. Based on the superb spy thriller by Martin Cruz Smith, this film hypnotizes us with its briskly paced plot, providing a whirl-wind tour of Moscow, snow-covered country estates, and Russian espionage organizations. The novel Gorky Park rivals John Le Carre's Smiley's People and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with a systematic, psychological unravelling of a bizarre mystery. Like Robert Ludlum's intricate tales, including Parsifal Mosaic, each minute...
...Wake Forest...
...bare stages with a significant prop or two, or else labyrinths of neo-Bayreuth gloom where spotlights jabbed accusatory fingers through banks of theatrical fog. This design orthodoxy, based on texture, shadow, "sublime" cavelike space, was a necessary reaction against older conventions of the painted background: the unenchanted tempera forest with every stale leaf in place. But it left out color, and the main reason for Hockney's success onstage was that he was able, with dazzling virtuosity and conviction, to put color back...
...another like stage wings. There is a ten-foot space between each of the freestanding elements: doorways, a canopy over the sidewalk, a stripped, façadeless structure. And in Richmond a second showroom is built in segments amid a stand of trees, giving the impression that the surrounding forest is invading the building...