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...remainder is largely more obvious mimicry—“Forgetful Heart,” a warmed-over, condensed version of “Ain’t Talkin’”; “Life Is Hard,” a sparer, more stilted version of “Spirit on the Water,” punctuated by more vaguely derivative, but equally middling material.So “Together Through Life” is a regression, a forgetful footnote to the decade of Dylan’s critical resurgence. Even in this decade, Dylan?...
...Though his plays became sparer and less frequent, he remained an industrious producer of scripts, especially for the movies. Assigned all manner of British novels to adapt, he turned virtually all of them - The Servant, The Pumpkin Eater, The Quiller Memorandum, Accident, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Handmaid's Tale - into parables of class inequity and betrayed alliances. (He also did a starchy version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon and, for his last script, an ugly botch of the Anthony Shaffer thriller Sleuth.) He directed other men's plays, notably Simon Gray...
...jigsaw puzzle in space," when his relationship with the N.S.W. government broke down and he resigned. During the '70s, Utzon would go on to perfect his "additive architecture" with the box-like Bagsvaerd Church and the modular Kuwait National Assembly, though in recent years his design has become sparer. A building should be left "to be what it wants to be," he has said, echoing the words of American architect Louis Kahn...
It’s in these moments of improvisation that the band’s potential for creativity emerges. Guitarist Neal McKeeby’s sparer moments—utilizing echoes and often random syncopation—add mystery to otherwise formulaic songs, and his penchant for experimentation shines on the jazzier “Clashing” and in “Goose Geese.” In the latter, his strumming actually resembles electric cello...
...Hollywood style--brash, chatty, muscular--is the only one most moviegoers know. But there is another, sparer sort, where penetrating gazes take the place of explosive technical virtuosity. It is caviar to the Hollywood popcorn, and for 40 years ROBERT BRESSON was its finest and most influential purveyor. In 13 features from Les Anges du Peche (1943) to L'Argent (1983), the Frenchman who called himself a "jolly pessimist" went his own thorny way and, through his severe, seductive example, established the dominant style of a minority art form. His films, with little dialogue and music, are in effect silent...