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HYPNOTIST Stare into the eyes of a Loretta Lux portrait long enough, and you're bound to feel both completely mesmerized and completely spooked. Lux's starkly pale, prepubescent subjects haunt the viewer from inside the image as if they were hiding some terrible secret. Remarkably captivating yet exceedingly eerie--the formula has turned the German photographer into an art-world phenom, earned her the coveted Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography and made her a millionaire...
...renewed colors do more than add vibrancy; they help Goya tell his story. Released from decades of yellowed varnish, a tiny white spot in The Second of May draws the gaze to a horse's muzzle, and from there, up to the animal's penetrating eyes, which stare at the viewer in terrified accusation, as if to say, "Look at what you've done." Bloodspecked bodies crumpled at the bottom of each painting now form a single visual line and provide a graphic reminder that the French massacre of "innocent" militiamen occurred only after the Spanish had slaughtered their share...
...general direction of Smithereens. He catches a couple men in the back. Others' brains splatter the walls in homage to Jackson Pollock's red period. After planting evidence on one of the deceased, Ludlow finds a cramped wall recess, with two girls trussed up and cowering inside. They stare up at him trembling, wondering what's he got in mind. "It's OK," he whispers...
...reality. More importantly, students should realize that they are the agents who produce their own perfection. No collection of bricks and bylaws will ever, on its own, constitute a utopia; to naively believe so is to walk into a trap. In place of willful ignorance, new students ought to stare head-on into the problems of the place, and, instead of finding them depressing, such confrontation should assert students’ right to orient themselves against problems in whatever fashion they please...
...fact, they aren't so much people we see in movies as people we know. They stare at the TV, pretending fascination with a game show as a way of avoiding either a conversation that's sure to turn prickly or a long night of sullen introspection. They offer old doggerel - like Eleanor Roosevelt's "Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery, today's a gift. That's why they call it the present" - as eternal wisdom. The men in Snow Angels have the appetites of the philanderers they see in movies but not the suave patter; a cheating husband...