Word: soundness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...slow-motion sequence of Dafoe and his wife, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, making intense and explicit love is intercut with their son wandering into the room, witnessing their coitus, climbing out an open window, and falling. The image of the child falling in the snow-filled sky to the sound of Händel’s “Rinaldo” is just one of the scenes that impress—if only in passing—in “Antichrist,” and builds credit for the film to develop, if nothing else. But this...
Alongside this more spartan ethos, “Cosmic Egg” provides several tracks to balance with a heavier, metallic sound. From beginning to end, “10,000 Feet” is filled with dark, sadistic, repeated low-note chords, a dominating drum set, and shrill, bestial screams. “Sundial” features intricate guitar riffs sequenced with driving, propulsive bass strangely reminiscent of a Black Sabbath throwback. The tracks maintain Wolfmother’s characteristic clumsy, hard rock style...
...throughout the film. Issuing sometimes minute and nuanced commands to a corps of dancers, musicians, choreographers, and crew, he manages to dole out his authority with an uncanny blend of warmth and immediacy. Responding to a musician’s reassurance that he’ll eventually achieve the sound they’re looking for, Jackson brings the playful exchange to a close, succintly stating, “Well, get there...
...playing was a refreshing change from the often sterile performance of Western works. “We learned by interacting and playing with each other rather than analyzing the music to death,” he says. “It was less about the quality of the sound than about the colors we created.”The audience’s thrill—evoked by the musical world the ensemble showed them—was manifest; they were on their feet and cheering three movements before the conclusion of the final piece. To perform such energetic...
...foolish after the fact, but they were sensibly made given the information at hand, and their objectives remain as laudable now as they were before. Critics can tell Harvard how it should invest and complain about its endowment loss, but Harvard’s investment practices are still fundamentally sound. Harvard should be allowed to look out for its own interests without backseat advisors—especially as such interests will ultimately benefit the greater community...