Word: scene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case, the East-meets-West dynamic that emerges is forced. Anna's character, though played well by a strong and elegant Jodie Foster, is flat. She enters the film a fearless Amazon who shows so little fear that a scene in which she picks up a lantern and scurries to investigate strange howling noises in the dark of the night causes one to laugh at the incongruity of the situation. Her characteristics are anachronistic; the film blunders and attributes to Anna the characteristics of a steely Scully-like character instead of a confused widow desperately trying remain brave...
...rooms and 20-odd paintings Rothenberg produced in her New Mexico studio. In Dogs Killing Rabbit (1991-92), two dogs rip apart a rabbit as the dislocated outlines of human faces look on in horror. Four horse legs, familiar imagery to Rothenberg followers, loom above. The violence of the scene is captured in the hot, thrashing colors: the magenta of the horse's hooves, the reds and browns of the bloody bunny. The presence of the human heads in the upper right corner draws the viewer into an active engagement with the painting: as you observe the heads observing...
...attended a small public high school that was like one of those cheap '80s movies with a homecoming queen and a big parade. I was homecoming queen. My freshman year. And then I withdrew from the social scene. I was a competitive ice skater for 14 years and so I didn't spend any time in town. I'll go back now and see that there's no one on the streets and then find out the entire town is at the high school for the huge basketball tournament...
...Spotted: Pressed up against a mirror at the Grille on Saturday night, scoping out the scene, before heading back to the Fox club for initiation...
...Louie's Superette has been the scene of other crimes before," he said...