Word: moonlighting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many great writers have been obliged to moonlight, some at seemingly incongruous occupations. Christopher Marlowe was a government spy, Henry Fielding a criminal-court justice, Franz Kafka an insurance-company clerk and Herman Melville a customs inspector. Among living writers, Primo Levi has held perhaps the most improbable job. For two decades the Italian author worked as a commercial chemist, analyzing resins and rock samples for makers of varnish and other products. Can literature spring from such mundane matter? Chemistry would seem as impenetrable to the literary imagination as lead...
When we last saw David Bowie, 37, the neon rocker had cleaned up his glitter-king image in order to bask in "the serious moonlight." But Bowie has more disguises than a chameleon, and in his new 20-minute video for the song Blue Jean, from his soon-to-be-released album Tonight, Bowie assumes two roles. Sometimes he is Lord Byron, sometimes he is a sign painter named Vic, vainly trying to convince his girlfriend that he and the randy aristocrat are buddies. Seems like old times, but the period is mid-20th century. "Blue Jean...
...across the English Channel, an armada of shadows, only their lavender wing lights clearly visible in the thin moonlight. They took more than three hours to cross the Channel, then they dropped to 700 ft. to make their landing run. Suddenly they plunged into the turbulence of a thick bank of clouds. The pilots reflexively separated to avoid collision. As they emerged from the blinding clouds, sheets of flak began exploding all around them. Sergeant Louis Truax saw his plane's left wing hit, and then the paratroopers went sprawling. "One man dived out the door headfirst," he said...
LEVINSON'S SPECTACULAR use of light makes the film truly magnificent--light that creeps into darkened rooms, the moonlight that illuminates the expansive midwestern farmland or even the bright glare in the stadium. This light in fuses many scenes in a breathtaking moments transports possibly melodramatic moments into fantasy. And Redford as Hobbs gives the film its American epic quality. Redford plays the store and wholesome Hobbs wonderfully. Oddly enough, Redford does not have many lines or verbally revealing moments. In fact, the screenplay is one of the film's weakest points. Yet it is Redford's captivating screen presence...
...four fountainheads carved like bearded Neptunes spouting water from puckered lips. A large mosaic of a parrot fills the wall behind the fountains. There is also a Jacuzzi bath. We walk along a brick path, lined with clusters of flowers, that leads to a bridge over a pond. The moonlight shines down on the two pairs of swans gliding on the water. One of the black swans lifts its head and makes a long, low sound.' Jackson imitates the sound and laughs: "It's like a little dog barking...