Word: seems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Star Wars experience. Lucas delivers on the visuals--he paints breathtaking vistas and wondrous creatures that prove he's got imagination to spare. It's a little too clean for my taste--part of the charm of the original series was that it made the long, long time ago seem just as grungily medieval as it was techno-cool--but it's still pretty darn impressive. Even while the film's big showpiece, a pod race of gladiator-like proportions, plays a bit like a video game, it's a marvel to behold how far the achievements of special effects...
Scenes such as those from a majestic company tour of India and of an opening night performance in New York make the dancers' excitement and energy almost palpable. Fantastic productions and crisis situations seem to be all in a day's work. The film even tracks a tango-inspired ballet, "Piazzolla Caldera," from initial inspiration to final fruition. Director of photography Tom Hurwitz does a superb job of transporting the audience from intensive rehearsals to exhilarating shows...
...have felt apologetic about my lack of work, and most of my friends seem to think I should feel that way. I am both upset and dismayed by this apparent culture of productivity...
...Though it would seem to have little in common with bellowing Italian tenors and symphony orchestras, King Kong is, at heart, an opera. A hip-hop opera. An opera for modern audiences. Or should I say postmodern audiences...
Throughout the book, changes in the city environment where the characters live seem to mirror their aging process. In "Old Love Affairs," Lucretia Baine, who is "almost old but lively," remembers her youth in San Francisco, when "the whole city seemed full of the relatively young and unmarried" and the youthful energy of the city had not yet been corrupted. Now, although she still excitedly wonders what to wear when an old acquaintance asks her to dinner, that freshness is gone, and she feels the city has grown older with...