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...That would account for the cool air of calculated informality that distinguishes these photographs, mostly of figures in the arts and public life of Britain. But Snowdon adds: "Often when people are told exactly what to do they become more themselves than they know." And that would explain the glint of pawky self-dramatization in many of the poses: Prince Charles sporting his riding silks with 18th century aplomb; Novelist Iris Murdoch slumped back in a chair, wrapped in a scarf, head cocked appraisingly; Actor Alec Guinness leaning jauntily against a tree, wearing a rakish peasant hat. The lighting...
...allows Fosse to present her story as a tragedy. Nicholas doesn't ask to see pictures of her when she auditions, he just looks at her until she blushes. He tells her to make her own decisions, to leave Snider--but in his eyes there is a feverish, ashamed glint that hides the familiar fantasies: Nicholas's difference is that he sees her as a Madonna instead of a whore. When she's with Aram she dresses better and drives a nicer car--but she's still an image that is only shattered when Snider destroys them both...
...like wax dummies, are indeed wax models of the Beatles as most people remember them: nicely brushed long hair, dark suits, faces like sassy choirboys. The other four Beatles are very much alive: thin, hippie-looking, mustachioed, bedecked in bright, bizarre uniforms. Though their expressions seem subdued, their eyes glint with a new awareness tinged with a little of the old mischief. As for the grave in the foreground: it has THE BEATLES spelled out in flowers trimmed with marijuana plants...
...took a last look over my shoulder-just in case." But she will probably return. "I'll be dreaming of winning Wimbledon when I'm 80." Evert Lloyd is sure to be back. "I've always bounced back after a disappointment," Chris says with that familiar glint of purpose. Navratilova is pretty difficult to beat, but she is not unbeatable...
...bodies with red glitter. The ploy only adds a dash of Saturday Night Fever to an already macabre event. And the updating is not uniform throughout. Sudden bursts of gunshots in the final scenes startle an audience grown used to the clash of swords. In duelling scenes, digital watches glint on the wrists of saber-holding swashbucklers...