Word: glows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...darkened gallery, the gasses glow luminously in several different colors. Some of the pieces are eery enough to be in a science fiction movie. A whirring sound from the power supply competes with the flute music in the background...
...gentle irony to the ma trix of abstract-expressionist style. Dine's older paintings of robes in the '60s were done with acrylic and house paint; they had the "industrial" look common to a lot of Pop art - clean, flat, unresonant. But, says he, "the robes glow now," thanks to the traditional oil paint...
...skip, preferring to have Andrei's death scene with the grieving Natasha at his bedside go on and on? Well, in the adaptation of Tolstoy's epic novel which visiting director Norman Ayrton is staging in the second mainstage slot this season at the end of March, the romantic glow doesn't fade because the moralizing comes first. In the stage version the voice of Tolstoy has been fleshed out as a narrator who in the opening minutes of the play, introduces the characters and soliloquizes on the main themes. And don't worry that the vision of Napoleon...
...night, New York City, Las Vegas, Tokyo and other cities across the industrialized world are a carnival of wastefully blazing lights. In Rome's Villa Borghese park, thousands of street lamps glow wanly in bright morning sunshine. Thermostats are set at stifling levels in many German homes. From Berlin to Osaka, families pile into their cars for weekend pleasure jaunts, clogging highways and creating hellish traffic jams. Just three years after the Arab oil embargo that shook consuming nations and threatened economic disaster, most of the world's consumers seem to have forgotten that an energy crisis ever...
...movie blows its chance. Although Cinematographer Haskell Wexler has executed in a masterly way the visual style chosen by Director Ashby, it is at odds with the story. Diffusion filters give a falsely nostalgic, pastoral glow to landscapes forever fixed in the hard-edged photos made of the '30s by the likes of Walker Evans. Soft photography makes the movie seem sentimental even on those few occasions when it is trying...