Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with European borrowings, from Matisse, Picasso, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Picabia, Leger, etc., etc. Nothing characteristically American there, you might say. But the crux of the identity issue is not the stylistic sources the artists drew on but the experiences on which they used them. It was there that the American-ness of American art hove into view, and it showed itself in two enormous image fields...
...most redeemable aspect of The Harmonistsis not the movie's sensitive portrayal of characters or its uplifting ending. It is (now prepare yourselves) its authenticity, its un-American-ness. There is no backlighting, no svelte bodies on parade, no '90s-influenced costumes or setting. This by no means implies that the movie does not have its share of glamour; it's just that its style is as dark, European and heavy as Germany in the '30s would have been. Unfortunately, if we follow the inverse proportion of authenticity to box office success, we will realize, of course, that this very...
...Kate Christensen's In the Drink (Doubleday; 278 pages; $22.95), Suzanne Finnamore's Otherwise Engaged (Knopf; 209 pages; $22) and Melissa Bank's keen The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (Viking; 274 pages; $23.95)--feature heroines who might enjoy Bridget's company but eventually tire of her ninny-ness...
...from an intelligent and liberated woman, a beneficiary of the feminist movement! Shouldn t I hate anything that smacks of the unenlightened era when men brought home the bacon and their wives cooked it? Domestic tasks are the enemy: they trick perfectly capable women into stay-at-home-mom-ness. To be a strong, complete woman, I am supposed to eschew all housewife-ish activities and pursue the rat race. Why? Because in this...
Joan Chen always asked, demanded, more of herself--certainly more than Hollywood wanted of her. "The only thing I achieved going to the States was that I became an exotic beauty," she says. "I did my best to give a version of Chinese-ness that the West was looking for. But I also understood that that version of me was worthless. I wanted to do something more serious." Clearly, Chen's striking beauty--searchlight eyes, long, strong neck and, it must be said, the most luscious mouth on either side of the Pacific--is merely the wrapping for surpassing talent...