Word: obsessional
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Robin Cormack, one of the exhibition's curators, sees the wooden sculpture as crucial to understanding the Byzantines' obsession with ceremony and mystery, which he believes were efforts to offset a low-rumbling sense of insecurity. Byzantine figures and icons seem crudely rendered to us now because the artists carefully...
But what raises Me Cheeta above the run-of the-rumor-mill celebrity bio is the author's refracted take on Hollywood's human wildlife. He's fascinated, for example, by their obsession with sex. Among chimpanzees, the sex act tends to be brief and to the point, whereas almost...
1 | MOVIE Synecdoche, New York A theater director (Philip Seymour Hoffman) has a Really Big Idea for a play, an obsession that upends his life and leads to madness. Charlie Kaufman's comedy about artistic ambition is challenging, invigorating and, if you go with it, brilliant fun. It's like...
In the closing scenes of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Le Mépris,” Camille—played by the iconic sixties starlet Brigitte Bardot—abandons her husband for the narcissistic, almost ghoulish American film producer Jeremy Prokosch, played by Jack...
Boys at Harvard dress like 40-year-old men. I walked into my seminar the other day and literally had to do a double take. After backtracking out the door to make sure I was in the right classroom, I crept back in and took my seat among the old...