Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other characters in "Glengarry Glen Ross" make it easy for Pacino to be bad: Jack Lemmon fills the role of Shelly Levene, an overworked, unconfident shadow of a "great" salesman ten years past his prime. Lemmon simpers and croons to customers, selling his soul to regain an irretrievable glory. In the end, he makes a good feast for Roma when the sleazy real estate sales company that puts a roof over both their heads crucifies...
...photos, drawn from all stages of Bravo's career, convey a sense of the precision Rivera praised. Bravos most striking characteristic is a crystalline, sometimes stark vision of his country's landscape and people. Light and shadow appear as palpable entities in these photos. Bravo's clearsightedness proves especially valuable in portraying the reality of Mexico, a nation so steeped in stereotype for Americans. His uncompromising view drains these images of any sentimentality or quaintness. At their best, these scenes of everyday Mexican life and death appear iconic and timeless...
Revelaciones showcases some of Bravo's most consistent and fascinating concerns. His art is one of contrasts and striking visual juxtapositions. Careful observation of light and shadow corresponds to his interest in the differences between life and death, real and not real, Old World...
Leningrad-born Anatol Ugorski has emerged from the eclipse of his motherland's shadow. He has signed his first recording with Deutsche Grammophon, recording works by Beethoven (Diabelli Variations), Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition), and Stravinsky (Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka...
...music, Sontag is a willful anachronism and has never been accepted by critics and academics. Unlike Rachmaninov, however, it is doubtful that Sontag's Volcano Lover Work will be embraced by the general public. Now the novelty, the taboo topics have vanished from Sontag's art; a shadow of the pioneer of the '60s has settled into his book...