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...Bennet. The World War II backdrop and brief scenes of passion, as well as the quality of MacEwan’s prose, all lend themselves well to Wright’s eye for lush cinematography and emotional bravado. In many ways “Atonement” promises to harken back to the great literary adaptations of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Ismail Merchant and James Ivory adapted several classic British novels to the big screen. While the worse of these ended up being tedious opulent excess, the best, like 1992’s “Howard?...
...guests. Painted in the late 18th century by Okyo Maruyama, each screen has a different theme, such as cranes, tigers, wise men and waterfalls. Okyo was an important transitional figure in Japanese art, as painting moved toward a more lifelike presentation. His simple brushwork and relatively muted color palate harken back to previous eras, but these screens, especially the one depicting the wise men, reveal a newfound confidence in the manipulation of space, distance and three-dimensionality. By contrast, Okyo's tiger paintings demonstrate a lingering Primitivism. Because there were no tigers in Japan at the time, scholars believe Okyo...
...Gophers come into the tournament as the top-ranked team, but also as the unknown since the other three teams all harken from the ECAC and thus have an in-depth knowledge of each others’ styles of play...
When Bush was failing as an investor, Daddy rescued his sagging share in Harken with a windfall contract for oil drilling in Bahrain, despite Harken’s dismal history and lack of off-shore experience. The Bush pedigree bought Dubya his stake in Texas politics, even though his recklessness, not to mention his dope-dimmed mind, would have denied it to anyone else. Then, as governor, he exploited the University of Texas’s state-funded endowment to funnel investment money to his cronies...
...something intimate and oddly beautiful about Perpetuum Mobile. As vocalist Blixa Bargeld softly utters “was habe ich? / was habe ich nicht” (what do I have? / what don’t I have?) in “Selbstportrait mit Kater,” memories harken back to ’70’s Berlin when the then-young Bargeld and percussionist N.U.Unruh picked metal trash off the streets and, for the first time, beat out their existential angst on the overpass on the Autobahn. “Perpetuum Mobile” inherits the drama...