Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...repeat performance in the high jump, determined to better her third-place performance from last year. Gyorffy did succeed in surpassing last year's performance. Although she did not achieve another personal record in the high jump this season, her height of 1.89 m was good enough for the silver medal...
What do you get when you throw together a few three-eyed monsters, a polymorphic silver suit that dances to Caribbean rhythms, an ambitious television news reporter who can't leave his car without getting his jacket stuck in the door, a Martian whose idea of a good time is eating about 30,000 gallons of ice cream (give or take a few) and a scientist who examines mucous-like substances by tasting them? My Favorite Martian, an entertaining Disney concoction whose lively physical comedy and occasionally amusing one-liners barely compensate for a weak plot line and nauseatingly cliched...
...signature of Mark Morris's choreography is the fusion of different dance forms he achieves in his works. In "Rhymes with Silver," the dancers swivel their heels and move their hips to the percussive beat of a Caribbean rhythm before striking a series of poses reminiscent of Indian dance. In a particularly striking moment, a dancer waltzes with her back to the audience while five men line up behind her partner and mimic his movements. Six pairs of arms and legs moving in different directions provoked laughter from the audience...
Treacy's inspirations are tribal, sculptural, futuristic and submarine. If he uses traditional millinery materials like feathers, they may radiate around a silver lace mask, above left. If he uses straw, it is molded into a huge dollop dripping over the face, right. In one gobsmacking moment during his show, a model wearing a hat that echoed a Calder mobile, middle left, turned her head slowly, and the hat wrapped around her face like a veil. The lights went off, and zowie! The horizontal disks glowed in the dark...
...work. Morell, born 1948 in Cuba, has concentrated for the past decade on several projects besides his camera obscura series; his domestic still lifes, his explorations of books, maps and paintings and his illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are also presented. All his photographs are large-format silver gelatin prints. His photographic technique is traditional, but he is nimbly inventive in his manipulation of the objects he chooses to photograph...