Word: shined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world watches Day-Lewis. And with good reason. At 36, he is arguably the most accomplished film actor of his generation: handsome and wily, fierce and delicate, bold enough to submerge himself in a role, strong enough for his charismatic intelligence to shine through. He knows the camera is anX ray, a polygraph, searching his face for hints of lies and evasion. He had better not just act his character but also be it. That is Day-Lewis' goal and gift: to be so true to his characters that they need never be sentimentalized, made to seem finer, grander, wickeder...
...tenebrous, so portentous, so downright antagonistic about Alfred Schnittke's music that it is almost a wonder anybody either performs it or listens to it. In Schnittke's dark, Russo-Germanic artistic universe, strings do not soar, they brood; woodwinds do not chirp, they protest; brass does not shine, it glowers. Created in the caldron of Central Europe, his music speaks of epic battles and terrible defeats; it is Kutuzov and Napoleon at Borodino, Von Paulus at Stalingrad. Why, then, is it suddenly so popular...
...Shine May Hung '97 thinks the buttons are "there for psychological reasons." She presses them, though "only...
...issues of perception and creation. "Keepers of Light" is an exhibition of birth, discovery, and vision. Some may not like the theatricality of the show, but my suggestion is to be patient and visit the show a few times before it closes on March 6. Eventually, the light will shine through...
Justin Ingersoll: 34-21, Dallas. "Because it will be Bernie Kosar's day to shine...