Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scenes). But one needs to remember that Sickert was slightly older than most of these painters. He was born in 1860; they hardly influenced him at all. The men who did were pre- rather than Postimpressionist: Whistler, Manet and, above all, Degas. Sickert had worked for Whistler as a studio assistant in the early 1880s, and Whistler gave him a letter of introduction to Degas. A strong friendship grew up between...
Apart from its knuckle-breaking difficulty, the piece presents a fundamental challenge: how to handle the repeats of Bach's 30 variations without becoming tedious. Glenn Gould solved the problem by skipping most of the repeats in his landmark 39-minute studio version, recorded in 1955. Feltsman has found another way. In addition to changing the dynamics, articulation and ornamentation of the repeated passages, his 79-minute interpretation departs radically from the usual approach by shifting octaves and even reversing the voices by crossing hands on the keyboard. The result is an electrifying performance -- technically dazzling yet infused with romantic...
...Corp., who is now a naturalized American, stands out as one of the world's pre-eminent media barons. Through a bewildering mesh of subsidiaries, he controls an $8.5 billion communications empire that includes newspapers and magazines in Britain, the U.S. and Australia, the Fox . TV network and movie studio, plus a powerful satellite that beams video programming throughout the British Isles. Like Johnny Rocco, the mobster boss in Key Largo, Murdoch is insatiably ambitious for more -- more publications, more programming, more power. Where it all will end, to cite a famous parody, knows...
...Roger has to figure out more than ever how to avoid becoming the family's buffoonish freeloader. It seemed benign for him to be employed by his brother's friends, television producers Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, working on the set of Designing Women and warming up the studio audience with his band. But now Coke and Pepsi are talking about the possibility of endorsements; on a Los Angeles radio show last month, he was asked to answer questions about everything from his brother's plans for the aerospace industry to his attitude toward the FCC. Chat hosts from...
Mental arithmetic, faced by this weird plastic plush -- seven inches or so of tube per hole, 80 holes on each side -- yields about 3 1/2 miles of plastic tubing; one imagines Hesse, who couldn't afford studio assistants, subjecting herself to a routine of repetitious semi-craftwork as punishing as any weaver's or assembly-line slave's, all in the interest of one restrained, tough, unappealing image that seems to oscillate between fear and desire, irony and alarm. There are boxes and boxes, but not many are as powerful as this...