Word: prima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large version is always a studio painting, and its fictions of spontaneity - of rapid-fire correspondence between the eye scanning a scene and the hand making its marks -take a month or more to achieve. But the paint looks direct and uncluttered; it seems to have been done alla prima, wet into wet, in a few hours. In fact, it is very considered painting. Welliver's accuracy of tone is phenomenal; there are hardly any "holes" and tonally inert areas in his work. With a loaded, flouncing brush he can put in the blue rim of ice around...
...complexity of plot, Diva would be captivating. The photography is stunning, particularly during a climatic sequence in an abandoned warehouse. The acting is low-key and effective. Fredrich Andre plays the handsome Jules with an appealing and desperate innocence. Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez as the diva, gives the insecure prima donna an amusingly American French accent, an appropriate haughtiness of manner, and a crystalline singing voice. Thuy An Luu and Richard Bohringer (as Alba and her boyfriend) are very good at behaving strangely, which appears to be their primary function...
...security forces of the Philippines, including arbitrary arrests and killings, incommunicado detention, torture and other forms of ill-treatment. The report concludes that government agents "have systematically engaged in practices which violate fundamental human rights" and that such agents "are rarely held accountable for their actions, even where prima facie evidence of violations is overwhelmingly strong...
...Investigations is probing the possibility that the Pentagon broke a little-known (and never enforced) 1919 law that proscribes Government officials from spending tax dollars to influence legislation. Representative Norman Dicks of Washington, who spearheaded the battle for the 747 in the House, claimed that the printout "was a prima facie violation of the statute preventing Executive lobbying." Weinberger indignantly retorted that the Pentagon's effort was "solely as a result of the extraordinary volume of distorted information that they [Boeing] themselves have disseminated on Capitol Hill...
...opera, the most enthusiastic acclaim goes to the stars-prima donnas and leading men who troop out from behind the curtain to bask in the bravos. By the time the conductor finally gets his turn, many patrons have already rushed up the aisles to grab a taxi. Last week in Los Angeles, though, the audience reserved its loudest cheers for the maestro: Carlo Maria Giulini, 67, returning to the operatic stage after an absence of 14 years...