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...grand project (renovating a home, planting a garden, starting a business), must be familiar with this dread: that the creation has taken on its own life, that it will overwhelm and consume its creator, that the work will never be finished. Caden couldn't bring his magnificent idea to fruition. Kaufman...
...hope that when they turn back to those appropriations bills, we may see some fruition,” Casey said...
...don’t do commissions—the process is sometimes more important than the product,” Christo said. The artists’ projects are marked by a peculiar tension between the intense anticipation of a work that may take decades to come to fruition and the subsequent memories of the project—the memories of those who experienced the work, but also the documentary evidence and preparatory drawings that form the physical residue of a transient installation. Between these lie the climactic two weeks when each project is open to the public; afterward...
...have the right to have that fence on my land.’” Christo and Jeanne-Claude encountered opposition in many of their projects, including “The Gates,” which they first proposed in 1979 but did not come to fruition for over two decades. “The process [of obtaining permission] sometimes makes the work much more important,” said Christo, referring to the media attention and iconic identity that the projects gained from each prolonged effort to obtain approval. Christo and Jeanne-Claude are currently working...
...entirely possible that Burn After Reading is some multifilm concept comedy--that No Country for Old Men was a feature-length diversionary tactic from the Coens' strategy of trying the patience of their most dedicated admirers. They started with that aimless farce The Ladykillers and bring the geste to fruition with their latest enervating caper. If this is so, they've managed a pretty complex joke, and it's on you. Too bad it isn't funny...