Word: shadower
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...first half of the play, A is a dotty old woman, a shadow of her former self, though the stories she recounts intimate what she was like when she was younger. Traces remain of the imperious manner, regal bearing and caustic wit, but they are interspersed with instances of memory loss, sudden fits of tears and humiliating moments of incontinence. At the close of the act, she suffers a stroke. In the second act, the full character is fleshed out, as B and C reappear in 1950s and 1920s dress, respectively. The dowdyish assistant has become the sophisticated, fiftyish...
...series on hustlers. Pl highlights the seductiveness of the Other. By taking professional photographs of hustlers from all over America in highly artificial surroundings and poses, he exposes the failure of the American dream. At the same time, the beauty of his play with light, shadow and color reduces his subjects to secondary importance, further emphasizing the disregard for these people in our society...
Jack Pierson produces perhaps the most reserved work of the Boston School. His early photographs try to capture the garis'h surrealism of the "Beat" sub-culture. At that time, he lived in the shadow of Morrisroe and Tabboo!. He only found the relayed confidence of his more recent photography when he cut himself off from them. The languid but controlled poise of his current work gives the sense that he has finally found his niche among these artists...
...also benefited from growing up in the shadow of Giants Stadium and being able to see the New York Cosmos play in the late seventies and early eighties...
...immediate sense of the feeling of daily life. The film goes out of its way to show us that, when these characters go on a long walk through the fields, they come back wet and dirty, their hems torn and stained. At night, there isonly candlelight, casting everything into shadow. And, in sharp contrast to usual Hollywood practice, nobody looks like a model; the women wear no make-up, the men are paunchy and badly shaven. The film also benefits from some finely drawn minor characters. Louisa Musgrove, her brother Charles, and Admiral and Mrs. Croft (Fiona Shaw...