Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to highlight Song's femininity and modesty, the other women in the film are reduced to playing caricatures of brassy, tacky European womanhood. Gallimard's wife (Barbara Sukowa) spends most of her onscreen time wiping her runny nose and looking pasty. Annabel Leventon, as a European diplomat's wife with whom Gallimard has an "extra-extra-marital affair," gets similar treatment. Bleached blonde and sporting a leathery tan, she perches naked on a bed and smirks at Gallimard, "Come and get it." In case you don't get the point of all this, the script is there to help...
...Breaking the Silence: Asian Americans and Health Care," to be held this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Medical School's Amphitheater D, is the highlight of October, designated Asian Health Care Month by the event's organizers...
Discontinue these efforts to highlight the current debt crisis which President Clinton's 1993 budget reduction plan will miraculously cure within half a decade, advises the Globe columnist. Reading further, one almost cannot help but grow nostalgic for Clinton's already failed economic stimulus package. Kuttner bemoans the "mere" 2.3 percent and 2.7 percent projected annual growth rates for 1993 and 1994, respectively...
...exhibition features many large-scale dramatic paintings accomodated in galleries normally reserved for the museum's permanent collection. A highlight is Rubens's "Prometheus Bound" (1611-12), which shows Prometheus bound to Mount Caucasus as punishment by Zeus for stealing fire from the gods. Prometheus's pain is tangible to the viewer. His muscular body writhes and twists as an eagle digs his claws into the man's foreshortened body. With a bold diagonal composition and bravado brushwork, Rubens conveys human agony in the dynamic, engaging style typical of the Baroque period...
...director George Cukor envisioned this scene in mid-nineteenth century Paris. "Camille," starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor, is another highlight in the reclusive star's long and fascinating career. The film, showing this Sunday at the Brattle, is part of the theater's current Garbo tribute...