Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rosenfeld -- known on computer networks by the code name Storm Shadow -- is a hacker who went to extremes, a cyberpunk who surfed right off the edge. Authorities say he was just one of many bandits stalking the electronic highways. In recent years, individual outlaws and entire "gangs" have broken / into computers all over the U.S., using their wits and wiles to pilfer and destroy data...
Byron should provide a jaded foil to Bysshe's youthful ardor; he needs to exhibit at least the shadow of his past energy so that the audience can glimpse the man who said, "What I earn my brains I spend by my bollocks." His caustic, irreverent lines carry Rigby a long way, but they can't make up for his ennervated delivery and static physical presence. Instead of dominating the stage as he should, Rigby leaves a vacuum...
Shea has a stronger voice and a more compelling stage presence. When he is not cowering in Byron's shadow, he delivers his monologues with feverish intensity. He is especially impressive in his final monologue, in which he recites a chaos of fragments from his poems, counting out the meter on his fingers...
They play out this bizarre affair against a stunningly filmed Parisian backdrop. Godard's experimental film techniques still dazzle 30 years later. Through his camera, the city becomes a dizzying, constantly moving dance of light and shadow. Amazing visual moments abound: he first breathtaking glimpse of Seberg moving blithely down the center of a Paris boulevard, an exhilarating view of the city from the air, the famous closing scene where a back alley is transformed into an infernal stretching corridor. The jazz soundtrack provides striking accompaniment to these images...
...budgeted for evil, but neither has he made a classic Faustian bargain. How could he? In a universe where God is only curious, the devil is certainly bored, at least with Five Oaks. To convey this sense of abandonment and emptiness without losing the reader is not easy. Shadow Play could have turned into another clever existential dead end. But Baxter fills the void with a hundred human touches, a style as intimate as chamber music, and a hero who rouses himself to reject the banality that hoohah happens...