Word: inhabitations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world. He advises a director to replace "objective reality with his own subjective interpretation." Thus the characters in Gertrud move in a slow and stylized manner into positions within the frame that are composed and lighted like 17th century Dutch paintings. The actors rarely look at one another. They inhabit rooms simplified down to a minimum of objects that suggest the milieu of the action and represent the ideas of the film. When Gertrud explains to Gustav that she is leaving him, she is sitting in front of a bas-relief of a woman. Set behind Gustav is the portrait...
...that spun around the parent sun. A zealous disciple, the Dominican monk Giordano Bruno, added an even more shattering idea. "Innumerable suns exist," proclaimed Bruno. "Innumerable earths revolve about these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven [then known] planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds." Although Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 as a heretic, his views lived...
Even in scenes where the author delicately snips the buttons off her characters with scissors of irony, one senses that she would really like to cut a good deal deeper. Why does she restrain herself? She has image, language, an actor's sympathy that lets her inhabit as well as observe characters. If she had fully released her rage, this impish novel could have been a devil of a book...
...After the GSD leaves, Robinson will have to be renovated before we can inhabit the hall," Bailyn said, "Although an architect has been hired for the job, we're not sure how long it will take. It could run on into the fall...
...form that works both aesthetically and structurally. Di Suvero proceeds by trial and error, bracing and rigging the parts until they work. Few modern sculptors have submitted their creations to such rigorous tests of their reality. Either the 30-ft. braces stand up or they collapse. They inhabit a narrow and exhilarating area of risk and give the same pleasure that rises from a daring work of engineering. His devotion to "rightness" gives his work a curiously moral edge. It is existential sculpture, the way that Norman Mailer's best novels and reportage are existential writing...