Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Meninas, which Sargent had copied in the Prado, sank very deep into his style and would produce curious effects tinged with melancholy, like the brilliant early portrait of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit--four slightly alienated-looking moppets, their white pinafores gleaming in a cavern of bourgeois shadow...
Tango is striking example of how a film can grasp an audience's attention with very little definitive action. A good sized portion of the film consists of dance numbers, in which Storaro takes advantage of the studio setting to use shadow, silhouette, distorted mirrors and moody lighting gels to create a dreamlike, often unrealistic effect. In the empty studio, Mario plays out his romantic fantasies and nightmares, always leaving a tinge of uncertainty as to what is real and what is imagined. Into this world Mario draws the other characters, helplessly entangled as their emotions become prey...
...first mentioned by Allan Bloom in his classic Closing of the American Mind, this nation's universities have long abandoned their in loco parentis role, leading students to believe that all lifestyle choices are equally valid. Last year's The Shadow University updates this idea-Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate argue that institutions of higher learning have gradually become reeducation camps. Where once parents could expect their progency to continue receiving moral guidance, Mom and Dad now are told to sign the checks and get out of the way so that junior can overcome 18 years of outmoded instruction...
...King's execution were an urgency of public health, like disposing of an incurable case of rabies. If sentenced to life, King would probably kill someone else in jail, the prosecution reasoned--another black, or a Jew perhaps, so lively and irrepressible boils his hate. He displays no shadow of remorse, and even in the Jasper jail, awaiting trial, he managed to get hold of an 8-in. knife. The jury did not find it hard to conclude that, among other reasons to execute him, he is simply too dangerous to go on living...
Like a verbose Raymond Carver, author Amit Chaudhuri concerns himself with details of the everyday like the afternoon light as it casts a shadow against a dusty bureau. Chaudhuri's novels are more intimate and optimistic than Carver's tales of people mired in middle age depression. They focus on the unexceptional-impressions of people's lives rather than plot-driven Hollywood cliffhangers with dazzling denouements. There may be an occasional epiphany, a sudden realization about particular relationships between characters, but the "aha" factor is minute and quite understated. The arc of the three novels is practically flat, with...