Word: panoramas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Daumier's powerful line captured a 19th century panorama...
Most of the patrons come to Chicago's Metropolitan Club for the prime beef and the 67th-floor panorama of the city by the lake. But the exclusive, oak- paneled club also offers an excellent view of America's welfare culture...
Rudnick has written a blackout comedy that moves like a 28-year-old kid on the prowl. Aided by the sprightly economy of Christopher Ashley's direction and a troupe of rubber-souled actors playing multiple roles, Rudnick lays out the panorama at double time: a game show, a Gay Pride march, a gay bashing, a taste of rough trade, a vision of Mother Teresa -- oh, yes, and a square dance. All with unfettered wit and a lot of heart. Who could ask for anything more...
...lure of movie biography is to show the contours in a life of significance. Working from a screenplay written in the late '60s by James Baldwin and Arnold Perl, Lee splays Malcolm's story across a 40-year panorama of Americana (the film cost $34 million, but it looks twice as expensive and expansive). In the mid-'20s, Malcolm Little's parents are threatened by the Ku , Klux Klan. In the '30s he finds both acceptance and isolation in white foster homes and white schools. In the '40s Malcolm (embodied with potent charm by Denzel Washington) is a rakish dude...
...underscore them. His version of Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More has a lifetime's impacted melancholy and sense of fragile hope. Similarly, Neil Young's From Hank to Hendrix, about a man who measures all the seminal events of his personal history against a pop panorama, has both a youthful brio and a hard-won autumnal perspective...