Word: pleasants
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...betrayal, obsession, and the ways in which people carefully construct reality to make their lives manageable. Egoyan does not present the viewer with a baby-food film, in which the contents are simple, mashed to a pulp, and spoon-fed. He poses questions and exposes searches, which are sometimes pleasant, often disqueting. His is a cinema of investigation, not of morals or simple answers...
...such a pleasant little garden party...
After four long years of storage, the Fogg Art Museum's permanent photographic collection reemerges in a survey of 40 great masterworks. Chasing Shadows weaves back and forth through the technological and artistic developments in photographic history. A sojourn in the gallery can be both a pleasant aesthetic experience and a fulfilling historical inspection...
Frankly, anyone who has eaten in the Freshman Union might think that `Art Free Zones' would be a great idea. The rotunda in the Union has windows instead of art and is rather pleasant. The back room, where, as Bowen describes, "everyone goes to eat alone," accosts its guests with a set of canvases that look like the remains of a food fight started by the original freshman class. No one lingers over their food there...
George slides very far. Too solid in the end to set Katy up as a guru--she has in mind usurping his pleasant apartment--he offers her a Christmas trip to Rome instead. In the end, of course, he loses the girl, but Brookner's triumph lies in the story's resolution. Torturing his sensibilities, wasting his money, disparaging his friends, Katy nonetheless succeeds in bringing animation back to her prey. As she re-enters the void from which she came, George starts a new life...