Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good stuff. Nicolas Roeg casts his wife, the exemplary Theresa Russell, as King Zog of Albania foiling a terrorist plot to the strains of Un Ballo in Maschera. Jean-Luc Godard sets Lully's Armide in a Paris gym. Body builders pump iron; two gorgeous sorceresses dust them off. Murder is in the air, and the kinetic poetry Godard can create from the way a woman's hair falls across her face. Julien Temple's witty episode -- quick gags and endless tracking shots -- plops Rigoletto into California's baroque Madonna Inn. A movie producer philanders in a room decorated...
...Russell was made for Aria. The music is Nessun dorma from Puccini's Turandot; the images are the last frenetic dreams of a dying woman. Ancient astral priests dress her for a mysterious ritual: paint on her body, diamonds on the soles of her feet, finally a branding iron pressed to her lips. A rude flash, and we see the scene of a car accident. The jewels are mortal wounds, the priests surgeons, the vision one of hope and fear for the unknown world that follows death. Visually, Russell's sequence is pitched at see above high- see. Emotionally...
...They would iron [the waterlogged volumes] to get the water to come out, which had all sorts of bad effects on the bindings and on the pages themselves," Olmsted said of efforts by the Soviets to dry out recovered works that had been soaked by fire hoses...
This year the Kroks will be going on a summer tour of Europe and Asia, with an unprecedented stop in Moscow to sing behind the Iron Curtain. The Pitches traveled to Bermuda over spring break, and the Din and Tonics will be making a trek to East Asia...
...relatively prosperous coastal regions, millions of successful entrepreneurs are building a future in exports to the outside world. Meanwhile, most of the interior provinces lag well behind, thanks to stagnant state planning, price-controlled agriculture and millions of cadres clinging to Mao's rusty concept of the "iron rice bowl," lifelong employment guaranteed by the state. In parts of the interior, especially the large cities and Sichuan, Deng's home province and the laboratory for economic reform, some have prospered. But not many. The eleven western provinces and territories, including the huge Tibetan and Xinjiang autonomous regions, with 300 million...