Word: precisionism
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Smoking opponents have been petitioning the FDA to regulate cigarettes as a drug ever since 1988, when the Surgeon General confirmed that the nicotine contained in tobacco is an addictive drug, creating a dependence similar to those caused by heroin and cocaine. After considering the issue for years, the FDA...
All of this striking camera work and arresting music accentuates the central theme of an artist struggling with what life has dealt her. She finds herself incapable of escaping her own gift for composing, and in the end is able to rise above the tragedy and use her talent. Juliette...
A year into the Clinton Administration, Duffy is still struck by the contrast between this President and his predecessor. It is, he says, the difference "between covering a game of checkers and a game of three- dimensional chess. Clinton is a much more complex politician than Bush, and his agenda...
With 42 players remaining from the Szell era, the orchestra has lost none of its famous precision. Yet as buffed by Pierre Boulez, who became musical adviser after Szell's death in 1970; by Lorin Maazel, music director from 1972 to 1982; and now by Dohnanyi, it has added a...
Throughout the film Leigh's vision of London is stark. His tendency to hold the camera completely still lends the narrative an almost documentary quality--Leigh rests on Cyril's mum's lined and bitter face or on a view of her gloomy kitchen. Pauses like these counterbalance the near...