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When the word "cinematic" gets applied to comix it usually comes from lazy, patronizing critics caught off guard by the medium's full artistry. But for "King," "cinematic" accurately describes the post-modern, documentary-style construction. For example, Anderson inserts anonymous witnesses who talk directly to the audience, filling in details or offering counter-histories. He also lays in archival photos or documents and draws around them. This approach reaches a climax at the end of "King" II, with a remarkable seven-page montage dedicated to the "I Have a Dream" speech. Photos of the crowd on the Mall, smeared...
...Birth of a Nation" provoked another movement: the birth of an African American cinema. Educated blacks, enraged by the film's message and influence, wanted to refute "Birth" in its own medium. (The NAACP also wanted to suppress it.) Within a year of Griffith's film, the Chicago-based brothers George and Noble Johnson had set up the Lincoln Motion Picture Company and released "The Realization of a Negro's Ambition." Soon entrepreneurs, black and white, were making black-cast pictures in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Fla. - virtually everywhere but Hollywood. Eventually some 500 race films were made...
Video and kids go together like Adam and Eve, so it's a natural medium for spiritual instruction. "I don't know if we coined the term edutainment, but we love to use it," says Jane Zylberman, director of acquisitions and public relations for Ergo Media, which sells Jewish-themed videos; its sales of children's videos increased 36% last year...
Would you like that well done, medium, rare--or raw? An emerging group of chefs is creating fancy, fussed-over dishes that have never met the flame of a grill or the zap of a microwave. It's the raw-food revolution. In New York City, Quintessence, a popular downtown raw eatery that fashions ravioli shells from uncooked turnip slices, recently opened an uptown branch and plans to launch another next month. North of Boston in Beverly, Mass., Organic Garden Restaurant just expanded its raw menu to meet popular demand. In Larkspur, Calif., outside San Francisco, the upscale Roxanne...
...infatuation with water. An avid swimmer, Sacks once noted in an interview with the Harvard Gazette, “I feel the desire to immerse myself in another element which is uncontrollable, mysterious, beautiful, rhythmic, and which is related to my desire to engage with poetic language as a medium...