Word: poignant
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...achieve? / Let go of your throat if you’re dying to breathe.” Riding producer Ant’s skeletal boom-bap, Slug spits each carefully sculpted rhyme with a clarity and understated resolve that unfailingly drives his thoughts home. The results can be poignant and oft-disturbing, but nearly always manage to captivate...
Still, the show is impressive, if not for its presentation, then for the majority of the images chosen and the work itself. Tillmans adapts the still life—poignant, pointed and even beautiful—as something more appropriate to contemporary society. Objects are significant to Tillmans as traces of his past and we are reminded that they hold a parallel importance in our own lives...
...translation. Most of the writers of these accounts are unknown. Many of their records, scribbled in Yiddish or, more often, Polish, were found in attics and basements of the ruined city after the war. Some of the stories are unbearable to read. The Diary of Anne Frank was a poignant solo piece for cello. Words to Outlive Us is a work of full orchestral anguish...
...These war rugs have been on display lately at the Dirt Gallery in Los Angeles. Afghanistan's recent travails have made them all the more poignant, and they've sold well. Some buyers are Hollywood hipsters with a penchant for ironic decor. Others have been U.S. soldiers and ex-CIA operatives who could identify the models of the rugs' grenades and guns. Alongside its rug exhibit, the gallery has displayed burqas bearing similarly unexpected imagery such as U.S. flags, phrases like "I love New York," and McDonald's golden arches. "It kind of sums up America," says curator Rhonda Saboff...
...Oscar Night. "It's anti the people who took America into the Vietnam War." The Quiet American dares to pose questions with no easy answers?perhaps no answers at all. That alone makes this one of the year's most thoughtful films. It happens also to be a poignant, visually ravishing parable of lust and rancor set in a paradise lost...