Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Louise (Simone Signoret) is one of those women. She and her crippled brother Gilles (Jean Rochefort) seem resigned to live out their days exchanging good-natured insults. Louise keeps house and her own counsel; the defiantly cheerful Gilles looks at life from a wheelchair, through a telescope lens. But there...
Though Phelps celebrates females who have brains and energy, her feminist lens at times distorts the drama beneath the surface of folk tales. As Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim made clear in The Uses of Enchantment, most protagonists in fairy tales are passive because the children who listen to them feel at...
Wherever Forss sets up his fine black-and-white prints, he creates a little museum without walls; such is his skill behind the lens and his technical proficiency in the darkroom. The police, however, see Forss and his fellow vendors as nuisances. Leaseholding, rent-paying merchants think still less of...
But they are. Forss's birthplace in the South Bronx, for instance: "My neighborhood's not there any more. It's underground; it's bricks." Wealthier areas of the city decay and change less rapidly, but even the center of Manhattan is a mobile of concrete...
Perhaps her athlete's instincts told King that when the ghastly truth splits open like a suitcase, one's moves must be fast and sure. Public figures rarely have that aplomb: when someone abruptly turns on the light and catches them, they bunk in astonishment and guilt or...