Word: sepia
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Beard's Roman Women is a rarity in that very few novels are illustrated (John Gardner's Sunlight Dialogues springs to mind as another exception). Interspersed throughout the book are clusters of photographs of Rome: rain beading on a window, sepia-colored church steeples; Roman street life, a few statues. While pleasant enough to look at, David Robinson's prints are sacrificed to a lost cause. Beard's Roman Women will not be saved by a handful of prints, whether Robinson's or Holbein's, for it is a shallow and poorly written exercise by a novelist...
America's own rare feathered inhabitants populate Boston galleries. The auction of E.S. Curtis's photographs of American Indians, at Sotheby Parke-Bennett in New York, demonstrated what expensive collector's items these sepia portraits of a vanished Indian have become. Boston galleries who bagged one or two of these trophies have made the pictures the core of exhibits...
...Right Man never came along. Her voice is cheerful but it speaks her loneliness, and her smile is one of regret. "When you're alone, sometimes you feel you'd done the wrong thing, not having a family..."Bank's sensitive documentary, combining direct interviewing with shots of old sepia photographs, is just right for the subject--short and bittersweet...
...moves away as the people move away, and mist from the warm mud interposes. A film by a Boston filmmaker (they try to have one in every group of shorts) based on Anne Sexton's poem "Old," has the same quality: two schoolgirls scamper down a staircase in a sepia print, and a minute later the scene repeats but the girls disappear before they reach the bottom...
...whole coffeehouse/gallery/theater has that sepia feel; occasionally the subway rumbles and chugs underneath; Red Zinger tea is the easiest smell in the place; and over in the corner a spot of white paint denotes a sweat-drop in the photo-realist painting of Richard Nixon meeting the press. Off The Wall is an atmosphere, slightly hazy and warm; light is refracted but does not bounce. It only ripples, like the images on the screen...