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Several prints on display focused on children, and these ring with the greatest honesty perhaps because the subjects seem completely unaware of the camera’s gaze. In one striking scene, several grade schoolers labor to push a hamper up a dirtied urban avenue. Despite the squalor of the surroundings, their impish smiles and doubled-over laughter show that the activity is more of a game than a chore. In a careful composition, the children’s clothes pick up colors in the graffiti and painted residences in the background, suggesting a unity with their surroundings...
...club-sized venues in all parts of the country as he tours in the wake of his latest album, Room for Squares. Mayer’s maturity and confidence while discussing his life and career choices during a phone interview were sharply contrasted with the boyish wonder and starry gaze of the tall, lanky guy who appeared on stage. While Mayer may not know quite how to deal with his newfound fame as he transitions from being the solo, acoustic opener to the top name on the bill, his fans didn’t seem to care...
...pensive gaze of Liz Taylor, Monroe's heavy-lidded glance and the Mona Lisa's enigmatic leer recall the direct eye contact of the Catholic icons of Christ, the Madonna and saints that Warhol grew up with. Catholic imagery is also full of death and grisly executions, subjects that possessed Warhol during the '60s. Darkness hangs over Room 9 (Disasters) as the mushroom cloud of Atomic Bomb (1963) hung over the decade. In images adapted from anonymous news photos, rioters are attacked by police dogs. Women die in car wrecks or from poisoned tuna fish. The broken body...
...pattern is forming for the new fashion in Amer-indies. Start with a teasingly obscure title; gaze fascinatedly at people in more trouble than they know; give lots of screen space and time to yearning stares; and, about 40 min. into the anomie, kill off a soulful son with a surprise gun blast. That's the recipe for In the Bedroom, which won a slew of critics' awards, and for Monster's Ball, a pained drama that is better than it sounds...
...bought this place from a friend, the real Caesar Morales, and gave it to Nita, his sister. He's older now, of course, a bit wider around the middle. In jeans and a green polo shirt, a towel over his shoulder, he casually works the table under the gaze of an early afternoon clientele watching perhaps the world's greatest billiards player...