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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DANGEROUS LIAISONS. What deadly games people play in this excellent gloss on Christopher Hampton's play. John Malkovich and Glenn Close are the decadent puppeteers of lust who realize, too late, that the job comes with fatal strings attached...
DANGEROUS LIAISONS. What deadly games people play in this excellent gloss on Christopher Hampton's play. John Malkovich and Glenn Close are the decadent puppeteers of lust who realize, too late, that the job comes with fatal strings attached...
...leaping from phones to films: "When I wanted to become a director, I became a director." And his films have all the exuberance of somebody who wants to tell everything -- every one of the heart's dirty little secrets -- to his coterie audience. At the core, these are high-gloss melodramas with high comedy along the edges. They move like Roger Rabbit on speed, and so do the horny, drug-hyped, tortured, ironic, cartoonish creatures of his imagination...
DANGEROUS LIAISONS. What deadly games people play in this excellent gloss on Christopher Hampton's play. John Malkovich and Glenn Close are the decadent puppeteers of lust who realize, too late, that the job comes with fatal strings attached...
...predella panels the Met has reunited from his early masterpiece: an altarpiece for the Wool Guild of Siena. The clarity and measure of the green architectural frame, with its slender columns and bladelike ribs, in which the theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas kneels in prayer, is like a visual gloss on his own syllogisms. An educated Sienese would have known that Aquinas had the habit of praying before he wrote. In another panel Sassetta showed Aquinas asking Christ what he thought of his book on the nature of the Eucharist, and receiving the approval of the Supreme Editor. The Sienese sophisticate...