Word: raggedness
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Thing is, I've never trusted Hollywood endings. The very term suggests something pat, something fully resolved, something less like Pearl Harbor and more like Pearl Harbor. Real life--and great drama--is more difficult, and the endings are more ragged. Berry and Washington deserved their wins; they gave the...
When David Bowie went through his R.-and-B. phase, they called it plastic soul. Now Neil Young is playing with the guys from Booker T. and the MGs, singing melodies ripped from the Otis Redding playbook, adding his own ragged guitar solos and flower-child lyrics: call it all...
At its midpoint the novel moves forward five years to the ragged British retreat from Dunkirk, in which Robbie is a weary infantryman, then to London, where Briony, now a nurse trainee, is struggling to find some remedy for the damage she has done. Her solution is not plain until...
Faurer was 84 when he died last March--too soon to see this show, which was lovingly assembled by Anne Wilkes Tucker, the museum's curator of photography. It remains in Houston through April 14, then moves to Andover, Mass., San Diego, Chicago and Philadelphia--though, oddly, not to New...
Bratt, 38, hits lovely, seductive notes in director Leon Ichaso's ragged symphony of self-destruction. His Pinero shouts savage poetry from rooftops, rages against the ravages of disease and grasps at respect even while reaching for his next fix. Bratt has had four seasons on TV's Law & Order...