Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zoetrope sound stages, Production Designer Dean Tavoularis has created a show-stopping amalgam of razzle and dazzle, sending skyrockets speckling over what looks like a mile-long Strip of surreal glitter. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro has lighted these sets in gloriously garish Technicolor-pulsating magentas and ambers that mirror the characters' moods even as they assert the environmental imperative. Coppola has staged his scenes in long, sensuous takes. A single shot may comprise several scenes, several planes of action and setting, while the camera glides around the ordinary hero and heroine like the young Astaire around a lamppost. They...
...turgid hyperbole of German critics. Their work is meant to evoke the fervor and spiritual elevation of German art in the '20s-Nolde, Beckmann, Kirchner, Macke. If only it could! What we get, it turns out, is more art about art about art, another small room in the mirror-lined flophouse of late modernity. This sort of idealist regression seems either contrived or inept, and sometimes both. It mimics deep feeling, but in an oblique and often perfunctory...
...marketing research and the mass production that follows stifle adventure and artistic convictions. The manufacturers and designers of many things we need or would like to have-automobiles, furnishings, greeting cards-keep asking us what we want. And what we want is what we get. Designers design in a mirror and so lock our society in a hall of mirrors. There is no advance into ideas we do not know about. This method of operation has ruined Detroit. Foreign car manufacturers were more adventurous and gave us designs we never knew we wanted...
...there is some question where the money for the fight is coming from, and whether it will arrive in the Bahamas in time for the opening bell. May fight, because there is always the chance that Ali, all 39 years and 237 pounds of him, will look in the mirror one last time and decide that his encounter with Larry Holmes last year was punishment enough...
...tooling up U.S. 1 now, heading north, 15 miles over the limit. Soon, he thought, he would be far away from the fake-green lushness of functional golf courses. For a moment, his eye caught the still-soiled golf clubs in the rear-view mirror. He smiled. This December, Bogart Jackson would see snow...