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...filmmakers went inwardly minimalist, those teeming Asian cinemas generated robust entertainment of pinwheeling action and violence (Hong Kong) and unabashed sentiment and music (Bollywood). Different in temperament, but alike in their vigor and brio, they were both exotic and oddly familiar to their American admirers. We realized that the radiant assurance of old-Hollywood movies hadn't died, it had just been reincarnated abroad...
Late in my travels, I was on a rural highway on the way to Santa Clara, crammed in the backseat with Oscar, his wife Yusimi and their radiant daughter Zenia, 5. We'd been out late dancing a few nights earlier, and Yusimi was giving me a postmortem on my performance. (Her bemused verdict: "You have Caribbean feet, but I have no idea what your butt is doing.") Just then, "La Jinetera" by the staunchly anti-Castro Miami singer Willy Chirino came through the speakers. It must have been the driver's CD--the song would never have been allowed...
...times, as the dancers’ changes in character seemed to lag during these moments. The occasional shaky turns and a lighting scheme that sometimes masked the dancers’ facial expressions did little to detract from the overall performance, which ended with a rhapsodic chorus of movement.The lingering radiant mood “Braid” created immediately dissipated as performers took their positions for “Von,” choreographed by faculty member Jim Viera. The dramatic lighting effects and neutral costume shades complemented slow, beseeching arm movements that developed into intricate floor work. Throughout...
Roxanna sped from the garden, her hands as white as cream and her cheeks flushed with feeling. She had resisted The Stable Boy. She had seen through his clothes, seen through the glistening musculature, seen through the radiant curls, seen through to the very center, to the black void that gaped and groaned in place of a red beating heart. She knew that she had passed a spiritual test, but she also knew that she was not completely unshaken. Even with the righteousness of the Lord coursing through her blood, with all her health and strength, her legs still quivered...
...former Prime Minister’s visits to Canada. Churchill gazes sternly out of the print. His unrelenting spirit leaps from the image in the lines of his face, in the powerful position of his stance, one hand on his hip, the other on his cane. The radiant suggestion of a halo playing about his head is a perfect example of Karsh’s use of light: most of his subjects are surrounded by dark backgrounds. Yet this use of light reaches into the luminary aspect of the strong leader who refused to back down to Hitler or endorse...