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...severe disease. But I always accept it and eat the food anyway. You can always treat a disease, but you can never rebuild that trust again. FM: Did Wes Craven personally contact you when Universal decided to make a motion picture out of your book, “Serpent and the Rainbow”? WD: What happened was my agent sold the book to a producer who brought the project to Universal. Wes Craven, who ended up directing it, is a very thoughtful man. But he just made another horror film. It was very discouraging. Something that you should really...
...cultural flowering just as important as any glassy cathedral to contemporary art. Here the fiberglass manta ray and skater-boy video of former "Primavera" artists James Angus and Shaun Gladwell sit happily alongside such contemporary jewels as Jean Tinguely's kinetic sculpture and bark painter John Mawurndjul's rainbow serpent. Here, and across Australasia, spring has sprung...
...mean that Michelangelo did not retouch at all? Of course not. Nobody thinks that even Michelangelo could have got every passage of color and shade in the thousands of complex forms that make up the scheme of the Sistine right with the first layer of color on each. The Serpent coiled around the tree in the Temptation of Adam and Eve, for instance, far from being the more or less monochrome reptile of old, reveals the most delicate complexities of feathered stroking in green and yellow over reddish tones of shadow. The slow drying of the intonaco gave Michelangelo...
...times, it was the lack of clothing that made waves. The fashion directors scrounged up a pair of briefs with a flickering serpent tongue for Benjamin A. Mottau ’05, and then there was the rose scene...
...MOTHER'S KEEPER by B.D. Hyman Morrow; 347 pages; $17.95 Scandal began with the first motion picture, but the modern sharper-than-a-serpent's-tooth era can be traced to 1978 and the appearance of Mommie Dearest, the harsh memoir of Joan Crawford. My Mother's Keeper, by B.D. Hyman, is even more acrimonious. Joan Crawford was dead a year when the revenge was taken. Bette Davis is still alive and ticking. B. (for Barbara) D. (for Davis) Hyman declares that the front door is always open to her estranged mother. But only a masochist would enter after...