Word: rich
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...subtle. The focus is clearly on the music rather than the message. “Long Walk Home” is the standout track, featuring everything that’s great about Springsteen and his band. The song starts with acoustic guitar and Bruce’s vivid lyrics, rich with neighborhood nostalgia: “I could smell the same deep green of summer / Above me the same night sky was glowin’ / In the distance I could see the town where I was born.” Suddenly, the track picks up as the drums and piano...
...latest exhibits to fill the rooms of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, running from Sept. 22, 2007 to Jan. 20, 2008. The presupposed norm of white marble sculptures representing the purity of ancient Greece and Rome is washed away by the brilliant, bold, and rich colors that are now bestowed on replicas of these sculptures. EVERYDAY PEOPLE Obviously, color is pivotal in experiencing this collection, making “Gods in Color” a refreshing and thought-provoking look at Greek and Roman sculpture. The sculptures are exuberant and unmasked, attacking the eye with their unexpected brightness and intensity...
...virginal Wong Jiazhi (newcomer Tang Wei) as a lure. Wong poses as a well-bred aristocratic wife, Ms. Mak, and employs her acting abilities and womanly wiles to delicately tempt Mr. Yee. Taming the beast, however, becomes an increasingly perilous and poisonous endeavor. The character dynamics are evocative and rich in nuance. They comprise the film’s nucleus and are roughly microcosmic of the external political conflict. The first half of the movie underscores the students’ naïve confusion between histrionic ideals and a harsher reality, until a particularly bloody episode jars the troupe...
...Brody, and Schwartzman create a compellingly realistic dynamic of brothers in mourning: they give freely but take away just as quickly, they speak like seven-year-olds, they hurt each other by arguing about whom Dad loved more. Anderson’s portrayal of India, with its desolate yet rich scenery, is also particularly adept. In a telling directorial move, Anderson almost incorporates the three alienated brothers, wearing “tilak” marks on their foreheads and flowers around their necks, into the foreign landscape. The careful pairing of slow-motion shots with music?...
...opting to live in L.A.'s not yet gentrified Skid Row rather than actor-bait neighborhoods like the Hollywood Hills. "I grew up having this thing about money where anybody who had it I didn't like, 'cause I didn't have it," he says. "And then you meet rich people who are really nice. And you realize money gives you the opportunity to do your own things...