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...quick-paced, introducing dissonance into supple vocals and generally submerging traditional melodies in a wash of sound that would be at home in any scenester dance club. Other bands on this album reflect varying degrees of similar fusion. On Masanka Sankayi’s track, electronic effects add a sheen of crackle to the singer’s voice, but it is ultimately the beat of skin-against-wood that carries the song. Then there’s Sobanza Mimanisa, who root their song “Kiwembo” in a distorted, angular guitar riff; in a decidedly...
SHADOW BOXERS JIM LOMMASSON Boxing gymsdon't have the sheen of health clubs or the cachet of martial-arts dojos. They're sweatshops, where young men who don't usually have many prospects in the wider world struggle to make the most of whatever it is that boils in their blood. For 10 years, Lommasson, a photographer based in Portland, Ore., has traveled around the U.S. and Canada, poking his camera into the places, like the Fraser Arms in Vancouver, below, where young fighters train. He has plainly got to know them and their coaches well enough to understand...
Each is delicately shaped and crafted by human hands, the thumbprints of the animators often still fresh on the figures. They sit in direct contrast to the overslick sheen of the too-cool-for-grade-schoolers output of the Pixar and Blue Sky studios currently robbing piggy banks across the country...
Downstairs, in a luxurious video screening room, Jeff leaves us to ourselves to watch an introductory film on Scientology. The film has a B-movie sheen. Women in suits with shoulder pads talk to men whose hair looks shellacked while a cheesy soundtrack plays in the background. Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, and a number of doctors, police officers, and businesspeople deliver testimonials on how Scientology has improved their lives. The religion has given them a template for self-control and success...
...loss, however temporary. An equation between the ceiling's darkness and the profundity of Michelangelo's mind is old and runs very deep. To find such a father figure decking himself, as it were, in azure, malachite green, rose, yellow, lavender and pink, in the silky and atmospheric sheen of colori cangianti, or shifting colors, is disorienting; one is still apt to think of color as a feminine rather than a patriarchal attribute. One may recoil, feeling that it is somehow better to embrace the frescoes we know than the ones Michelangelo painted. And given the torment inflicted on great...