Word: phantasmagoria
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...dreams in comics. Only photography, which efficiently and accurately captures the exterior world, compares with comics' ability to capture the interior world of our unconscious. Dream comics have become an entire subgenre of the art form, and it's easy to see why. Mere words could never capture the phantasmagoria of our dreamscape...
...Contrasts, dad and son team up for a dapper program of seven-string-guitar duets (the added bass strings make for an orchestral richness of texture). The bill of fare ranges from high-class standards like The Bad and the Beautiful to such sophisticated novelties as Joe Mooney's Phantasmagoria; the playing is crisp, witty and swings like...
Under sun and moon-in all weathers-he went on constructing, a process whose natural culmination was his vast phantasmagoria The Changing Light at Sandover, an epic poem stretching over three volumes and chronicling extended conversations with the illustrious dead, whom Merrill summoned by Ouija board. He has gone on to become one of them, leaving behind the paradoxical legacy of a man who loved both understatement and sumptuosity, nicety and grandeur. In the end, his contradictions were expansive. Collectively the poems declare, Here's a world, and it's a good...
...Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands), all of them critical and popular hits -- he didn't show it. No screaming, no broken crockery. "He's the most un-Hollywood person I've ever met," says his co-producer, Denise Di Novi, who believes Burton's breakthrough came with Scissorhands, another Christmas phantasmagoria about lonely creatures making sad magic in the snow. "He connected with himself," she says, "and his art became much more intimate." Now, without Batman producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters hovering, Burton would make his own film. "You see glimmers of Tim in Batman," Di Novi says, "but this...
Even in the live theater, computer technology can work its wonders. George Coates' Invisible Site: A Virtual Sho, a mixed-media phantasmagoria now onstage in San Francisco, tells a story like TRON's or The Lawnmower Man's: of travelers and hackers in a virtual-reality video game. But from the first moment, with the image of a huge (computerized) concrete chute belching (the image of) computer-generated smoke, the effects are the real story. The audience, wearing 3-D glasses, watches a live actor getting poked by a giant computer-generated glove, or scenery changing with the tapping...