Word: glow
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...drops a perfume stopper, which rolls toward the wall; behind a loose brick she discovers something else, a boy's prized chest of trinkets, 40 years old. She resolves to find out who the owner is. She gets the box to him and, when she catches the transfiguring glow on his face, decides to make a career of doing good...
...seven images in the show consist of five large portraits and two very large still lifes. Under dim lighting (important to their preservation) the grass canvases seem to glow gently. At the request of the artists, only five visitors at a time are allowed into the show. Whether this is because of the delicate nature of their work, or an impression they wished to create, this choice makes Presence feel like a quiet, spiritual space...
...contrast to these naïve efforts, Schneider’s prints capture motion. The hands and lips glow to the extent that they were pressed against the negative. Some are incandescent and pulse with life, as if trying to burst out of the glass; one from a two-year old boy sits curled and silent like a raccoon’s paw, taking up almost no space on the black matte. The life that animates each hand’s outline creates tension between the jet-black background and the dark, mottled interior with its rune-like lifelines...
...step off the elevator into the Barbara Krakow Gallery, a bright light fills the room. But while it is impossible not notice the green glow that illuminates the current exhibit, New Light Works by Cameron Shaw, it takes a while to realize that this is actually one of the pieces in the show. In fact, it makes up one fifth of the works in the exhibit right now. It is a risk to have such a small number of artworks in a show like this; they all have to be captivating and original to make it successful. Unfortunately, Shaw?...
...potential problems with Riding in Cars in its newest incarnation. Often the striking and memorable features of a biography or autobiography are inexorably tied to the words themselves. A well-written passage can provide even the most seemingly banal details of an ostensibly unremarkable life with a unique glow. Of course, all of the advantages of the written medium are lost when a book is converted into a film. To be sure, the motion picture medium can do many things that a book cannot. The reader’s direct access to the characters’ psychologies is replaced with...