Word: glare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand, you're like me, and you don't mind the glare of publicity, then write away! And begin treating everything you compose as if it will someday be published. And I mean everything. Devote real care and imagination to those communications you've typically taken for granted...
Part of Joseph Beuys' Lightning with Stag in Its Glare is an 1,800-lb. structure that is suspended from the ceiling and just kisses the floor. Artist Lawrence Weiner chooses words, the color of the paint and the way the text should be painted on the wall, and has the gallery do the work. Ronald Kuivila's Visitations is an audiotape of interviews, songs and the noises of a former factory. Robert Rauschenberg's 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece is a work in progress that currently has 195 parts--some visual, some aural--and measures nearly...
...tall funnels of the steamboats towering at the end of the main street... Everything is beautiful in this world of people." But, he typically added, one Paris laundress with bare arms "is worth it all for such a pronounced Parisian as I am." In any case the outdoor glare pained his weakening eyes, which is why all his paintings from New Orleans are either interiors or portraits. He never painted the black women whose appearance struck him so forcibly. He concentrated on his own relatives, especially Estelle Musson, Rene's blind wife, for whom he felt strong pity and sympathy...
...could the computer screen's cold glare ever replace a therapist's caring gaze? It may be hard to imagine, but for a growing number of people dissatisfied with traditional talk therapy, the convenience and anonymity of the Internet beat $100 sessions on the couch hands down. After all, if people are willing to bare their innermost feelings to a newfound love online, why not discuss deep-seated anxieties that way as well? Some 150 counselors listed on the website metanoia.org/imhs offer online therapy by videoconferencing, e-mail or live chat. Skeptics say the lack of nonverbal cues makes...
Enough of this age thing. What about the movie itself? Underneath the overpowering glare of the film's marquee stars lies a movie that's halfway decent, for what it is. For a spy thriller that's meant to keep you guessing until the last minute, it succeeds without the presence of an actual story. Though the plot is thin, the directing is striking, and the stars make up for the lack of substance. Admittedly, the film itself seems to be an excuse to showcase the talents of two of Hollywood's hottest players...