Word: motifs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Story is built around the motif of opposites. Peter and Jerry lead very different lifestyles: Peter has the conventional family life with a wife, two daughters, two cats and two parakeets, while Jerry lives alone in a rooming house with two empty picture frames. The theme of opposites supports the decision to perform The Actor's Nightmare, directed by Hilary K. Snow, right after The Zoo Story, pairing the tragedy with a comedy...
...interior of Curious George, which also features a small room set aside for younger children, follows a jungle motif, complete with a mas- sive tree in the middle of the store...
...attended many postwar productions of opera or Shakespeare can attest. The swastika has become a trite symbol of evil; foot soldiers in dramas tend to goose-step. Things are going a little too far, though, when synchronized swimming--also known as water ballet--fixes on death camps as a motif for aquatic drama. Such was the case with the French Olympic team, which, in preparing its effort for Atlanta this summer, crafted a routine featuring swimmers who--yes--goose-step into the pool and then, switching identities, impersonate women victims being led away to the ovens. All to music from...
...these worthies were showing completed films; they were on hand simply to bring luster to a festival where voyeurism is a vocation. Gawkers in evening dress could watch La Liz at a lavish dinner to benefit AIDS research, where she auctioned off a Robert Rauschenberg painting with a marine motif. "How about $300,000 for this fish?" she asked...
Corot was much better at trees than people, let alone pagan divinities. His weakest drawings are of the figure, his strongest of vegetable nature--one especially, an ink drawing of creepers on a rock done around 1827, has a wiry inquisitorial line and a fierce truth to the motif that remind one, without exaggeration, of Durer. In landscape his hand roamed free, giving the foreground hill in Volterra, the Citadel, 1834, a lively splotching of indeterminate dark scrub whose excited marks carry more visual weight than the distant hill town. But his early portraits are maladroit Ingres...