Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a beach ball advertising a resort in the Poconos, a moony frame from a romance comic. But by the time such things had been run through the loop from ad to art to ad again, they had become as invested with glamour as a photo by Avedon. The sheer pervasiveness of Lichtenstein's style rivals and maybe even exceeds Warhol's, even though, unlike Warhol, he kept his own distance from the ad industry as an artist and never offered himself to it as a celebrity. Thus for the young, Lichtenstein must seem to have been around forever, while...
...sheer bad luck for the cast of My Mother Said I Never Should that one of the only British reviewers for this newspaper was the one sitting in the Emerson Stage's Studio Theatre on the opening night last Wednesday. Luckily the program informed me that the play is set in Manchester and London; I would have been lost otherwise, as the actresses' accents veered unnervingly between Boston, Northern Ireland and South Africa. Yet once I had gotten used to being whisked from contintent to continent, I was captivated...
...psychology and language, gave Brando the showcase that established Stanislavskian subjectivity as the standard for serious American acting and offered director Elia Kazan the chance to develop a style that subtly, hypnotically serves conflicting demands, including the play's for claustrophobia, the actors' for ensemble playing, the movies' for sheer movement...
...Year at U.C. Davis," but he couldn't find a rhyme for "Davis"). Pointed Accounts of People You Know (1983) and Distortion (1984) are shorter and easier to dig, with delights to be found not only in the multiple melodies and the self-conscious wit, but in the sheer breadth of brightly muddy synth sound in, say, "Metal and Glass Exact...
...actually found myself marvelling out loud at the sheer virtuosity with which this movie was made...