Word: greying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first of those images he set loose in public was Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, a triptych he exhibited in 1945, when he was 35 years old. On three panels of bright reddish orange scuffed with grey, a trio of mutant figures grimace, snarl and bark. In two of them, the most expressive feature is the gaping mouth. What the eyes represent for most painters, the mouth was for Bacon, the locus of human identity. The mouth is what bites, suckles and howls at the moon. By contrast, the eyes in any face painted...
...Fifth Avenue is a novel set in One Fifth Avenue, "a magnificent building constructed of a pale grey sandstone in the classic lines of the deco era." There was a time when writers and artists could live there--a few still do--but now the apartments start at $1 million-plus, making it strictly the domain of the wealthy. ("Money wants what it can't buy," Bushnell writes, "class and talent.") The friction between those two worlds--rich and poor, crass and cultured, New York present and New York past--gives the book its heat. Well, that...
...pomp and circumstance, though. The acting is effective, with Keira Knightley putting in a memorable performance as Georgiana. Knightley successfully portrays the Duchess’s range of emotions from unhappiness at her three-person marriage to ecstasy in scenes involving her lover, Earl Grey. Ralph Fiennes, her philandering husband, gives a skilled performance as the selfish and inattentive Lord of Devonshire. He and Knightley make a convincingly unhappy couple onscreen. Even the aristocratic British accent—often hard to do well–is right on par. Half the fun of watching the movie is seeing the lavishly...
...young woman named Bess (Hayley Atwell) who is being abused by her brutish husband. In due course, she becomes the Duke's mistress, living more or less comfortably with the Duke and Georgiana. (It is a very big house.) Georgiana also takes a lover: a rising politician, Charles Grey (Dominic Cooper), who will one day father her out-of-wedlock child and, eventually, become prime minister...
Time has been least kind to Grey's Anatomy spin-off Practice (Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.). After nine tepid episodes (and a subpar season of Grey's) last year, there's less reason than ever to care about the dramedies and quirky cases of sexy doctors at a ritzy "wellness center," and the return episode trudges along like a 44-min. chore (even if there is some resonance, in this pregnancy-besotted election season, to the reproductive-medicine subject matter...