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...face of this minor setback and a slight hesitance in the orchestra after the second restart, the piece proceeded boldly to the end. While Yannatos described his composition in completely abstract terms in his notes, it was clear that his concerto embodied the hero-versus-world aesthetic of nineteenth century Romantic pieces. Yannatos did not provide a program or narrative, but it was difficult not to hear Haimovitz as the protagonist in a story...
...locks, it’s hard to tell who’s who. The director takes great pains to achieve this effect; Beyoncé stands several inches taller than Shakira’s tiny five-foot frame, but the camera circles around the pair, always catching one at a slight diagonal to the other, such that they appear to be the same height. Add the grayish lighting to confuse their skin coloration, and the result is an aesthetic illusion as clever as it is sexy. And then there’s the dancing—the gyrating...
...thank for their perilous place in the media, too. As the prevalence of the iPod has increased, people have become ever-so dependent on their personal music-playing devices. The ability to carry one’s personal collection around, accessing old favorites and recently downloaded hits at the slight shift of a thumb, has replaced the frustration of waiting for your favorite radio station to play your song of choice...
Brody does, in fact, have a kind of geeky weirdness, a slight awkwardness on top of his mellow self-deprecating charm that Schwartz says manifests itself, for instance, when he transforms, as he does often, into a "monologuist movie reviewer." Or you can see it in his thwarted dream to produce a remake of Revenge of the Nerds. Or, as the neurotic Jewish first-time writer-director of In the Land of Women, Jon Kasdan (son of Big Chill director Lawrence Kasdan), says, "He's a new kind of nerdy Jewish guy: both self-deprecating and self-possessed...
...There might have been just a slight bit of confusion regarding which lines—the football sidelines or the taped in blue lines for lacrosse—constituted out of bounds, but if anyone appeared phased, it was the Bears’ defense...