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Whether one peruses Matisse, the master reductionist, who uses plain black brush strokes to sketch a woman's face in "Tete,"--or Dufy, who uses a charcoal pencil to delineate contours without filling in the flesh of bourgeois French men in "Personnage"--the figures create a dynamism that only modern art evinces. This visual movement strongly contrasts the static and frigid characters of nineteenth century French artists like Ingres and David, whose canvases present both form and content, with the former prevailing...
...what's the value in a stretched sketch about two heavy-metal heads -- Wayne (Mike Myers) and his sidekick, Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) -- who do a cheap cable-TV show from Wayne's basement? Well, it's sorta funny, and most genial: for all their ranking on parents and drooling over hot babes, Wayne and Garth are innocent kids wasting time creatively. "It's about two friends who have nothing but can make things fun," says the film's director, Penelope Spheeris. "Kids see this and say, 'O.K., I don't have much, but I can still have a good...
...should commend Yourgrau for his powerful, descriptive voice. What he lacks in coherent thought processes he easily makes up for in the colorful and precise language he uses on every page. The reader can always envision the picture the author tries to sketch, though he seldom understands its meaning...
...Drops Bombs" is indicative of the album as a whole. The twelve tracks end up blending together as one murky montage of tambourines, Hammond organs, watery electric guitars, and indistinct vocal harmonies which spew out shallow lines of neo-psychedelia such as "I hear your tambourines/inside my Etch-a-Sketch...
That in no way excuses Johnson, but it does give a more nuanced understanding than Stone's crude sketch of Johnson as a pro-war putschist...