Word: misting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some, however, Angelopoulos' style may sometimes seem too lingering or, in a sense, too thorough. (Other Angelopoulos films, "Landscape in the Mist" and "The Traveling Players," can be seen at the HFA this weekend). Long, sustained shots prevail, inviting a contemplation of the image's inextricable connection to the passage of time that not all viewers may have the patience to attempt. The carefully interwoven themes of the historical and the aesthetic may seem almost too perfectly constructed. It is interesting to note that Angelopoulos, upon winning second prize for the film at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, stormed...
...Enigma through the deep space of his own brain before he melts to ash. Great mathematical ability remains a snark that can't really be hunted in a novel, but the author provides what is possible, the illusion of understanding as an unearthly mind reaches for patterns in a mist of numbers...
...Siberian eruptions could have killed off plant and animal life in half a dozen different ways. An atmospheric mist of sulfur dioxide, for example, could have stoked lethal storms of acid rain. Carbon dioxide, injected into the atmosphere by erupting volcanoes, could have trapped solar heat, disrupting climate through global warming. Even the physical force exerted by the rising plume of molten magma could have contributed to the extinction by uplifting a substantial section of the earth's crust. Since temperatures fall with elevation, says Renne, snow and ice would have quickly accumulated, wrecking ecosystems at higher elevations and contributing...
...light mist fell Friday morning, the group worked its way through the rows of summer squash and then packed the vegetables from their morning's work in boxes to be taken into the city...
...suit. Sabbath's memories are frequently weakened by his untransformed self-pity. Furthermore, his return to scenes of childhood has an autobiographical tinge that clouds the distinction between the author and his creation: the shameless, self-destructive rebel who wants to be remembered as a "Beloved Whoremonger, Seducer, Sodo mist, Abuser of Women, Destroyer of Morals, Ensnarer of Youth." There should be no confusion between Sabbath the puppeteer and the novelist who pulls the strings. Of course, there will...