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...ceremonial dirge of a funeral march. In the big Rich Harbor only a few identifiable objects - steamboats, an ace of spades - can be identified amid a welter of enigmatic markings. Meanwhile Klee also expanded his experiments with an astonishing variety of materials, achieving exceptional nuances of texture, translucence and sheen. In addition to oil and watercolor, he worked with chalk, charcoal, pastels, colored pencils, wax color, tempera, varnishes, gypsum, poster paints and colored paste. He used them, in varying combinations and often in several layers, on coarse paper, parchment, newsprint, cotton, linen, gauze, burlap, cardboard, plaster and plywood. Ever...
JOHN EDWARDS Dean has taken the sheen off North Carolina's glossy Senator, but if Dean beats Kerry up North, Edwards could bill himself as the moderate savior in the South
...feel as though I have found a secret path into politics, a path which leads me to the human element, shows me the off-the-cuff bits which land somewhere on commercial cutting room floors. In short, C-SPAN is a way around the glossy sheen of Bush’s and Rumsfeld’s incessant deflection, a way around the incessant talking heads who spout the party line 23 hours a day. It is a bit of the truth, a bit of the voyeur, and if nothing else, it indulges me—a love of absurdity that...
HIGH HOPES. The film, from the era of reemergent New British Cinema, was released in 1988 and directed by Bristish Independent filmmaker Mike Leigh. High Hopes follows the story of an English couple, Cyril (Philip Davis), a motorcycle messenger, and his wife Shriley (Ruth Sheen). The couple live with Cyril’s mother and become invoved in the sagas of his mother’s neighbors and his sister. Shirley yearns to be a mother, but Cyril, a Marxist, wants to live in a utopia and is reluctant to start a family. High Hopes screens Saturday, August...
...major characters. The WB, which hit big with a young, hot Superman on Smallville, offers a young, hot King of the Apes in Tarzan and Jane (on which Jane, of course, is a cop). There are yet more star-vehicle sitcoms, for the likes of Whoopi Goldberg, Charlie Sheen and Kelly Ripa. And NBC, under pressure to replace Friends after its final season next year, unveiled Coupling, a risque sitcom about six sexy young men and women in a big city. A Friends copy, you say? Nah. It's a remake of a British sitcom--which was a Friends copy...