Word: lifeless
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...buys a remote country house, converts its vaulted cellar into a more or less gilded cage, and kidnaps Miranda, a vivacious London art student whose beauty has enraptured him from afar. "He is an empty space designed as a human," his astonished captive confides to her diary, "slow, unimaginative, lifeless, like zinc white...
Moynihan cautioned architects and city planners to avoid designing and building the sort of "lifeless city" he encountered in Brasilia, where "you feel that you are one of the plastic people that designers put on a model...
Adjoining Brasilia is an unplanned community called the "free city," where many construction workers live. "Nothing could be more fantastic than to move through Brasilia--a practically lifeless city--and then move over to the free city," he declared. "It roars, it sings, it makes love, it dies, and it is reborn...
...film, on the other hand, he is a milquetoast. He looks like a model from some fashion magazine--just as depressingly lifeless, unreal, and unlikeable. He is no more than a simple foil for Zorba. The film implies, apparently unintentionally, that this effeminate character is homosexual. Although the suggestion is later contradicted, it is unmistakable and confusing...
...illuminating in several ways. In it, the ladies have followed most of the current idioms, from abstract expressionism to hard-edge relief, from assemblages a la Stankiewicz to painting in debt to Jasper Jones. In the hands of the artists shown, these potentially vital forms have become empty and lifeless. If nothing else, this show should prove that using abstract means doesn't make a poor painter look any better. These relatively talented amateurs have failed; shouldn't this quiet those who have always claimed that "any child could...