Word: motionlessly
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Raphael's portrait of a young girl emanates a motionless dignity similar to that of the ancient works-it can fill the space at the top of the stairs where it stands alone. With harmonious colors and minute detail the Renaissance master describes the girl's individuality...
...looked at each other, our heads two feet apart but on opposite sides of the glass, for no more than five or six seconds. Then, his body still motionless, he rotated his head to look at the packages in the back seat, to the hood of our gleaming red Volvo, to the blaring stereo cartridge/AM-FM radio system on the dashboard, up and down my reclining body, and, just for a split second, back at my face. Then he stepped away from the window to pull the gas nozzle out of the tank, leaving a thick streak on the area...
...earlier films, his approach works, and not just because his talkative superstars sustain one's interest without a dramatic plan. Warhol's first films were long static takes of nearly motionless objects- the Empire State Building, a man sleeping. Despite their notoriety for selecting events and objects at random, and thus trying to destroy designed art, these films pushed cinema to its fundamentals and were Warhol's purest formal works. A subsequent series of sharply lit deep-focus features sustained interest through one's shifting attention within the static frame. One continually rediscovered the composition's different elements...
...what was going on. Upon receiving a commission to do a funerary monument in Rumania, he began work on a kneeling bronze woman. Starting with a violently agitated figure that Rodin might have been proud to acknowledge, Brancusi went through several successively simplified versions until he arrived at the motionless Prayer he finally cast. Though still conventional in form, the mourner's classic calm and smoothed-over details foreshadow aspects of Brancusi's mature work...
...drunk. Every other one is smoking, and so disgustingly, with his butt stuck to his lower lip! So that long before the incense-in place of the incense-gray pillars of cigarette smoke rise from the church courtyard, with its electric lights, toward the Easter sky with its brown, motionless clouds...