Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...museum sifted through 200 tapes kept in storage by Edie Adams, Kovacs' widow and longtime co-star. She had rescued some of the material from ABC shortly after Kovacs' death, when the network was starting to record over it. "I took the insurance money and bought a wall of stuff that said 'Kovacs,' " she says. "I didn't know what half...
...embraced astrology and occult religion, being founded on the picture of a fourelement universe (air, water, fire and earth) proposed by Empedocles in the 5th century B.C. There was an early link between alchemy, technology and art, since ancient glassblowers and metalworkers were always trying to make base stuff look like gold and silver. Over the centuries, alchemy gave painters, notably Hieronymus Bosch, a rich vein of fantasy to tap, partly because its metaphors of change, duality and syncretism lay close to their own creative processes...
This is precarious stuff, difficult to play at just the right edge of hysteria. Director Beresford, a big, comfortable, good-humored man, nudges the looniness in the proper direction. He is the right man for the job, Lange says, partly because "he really likes women. He enjoys their energy." The three actresses, each of whom has won an Academy Award, did not know one another before Crimes. They have maintained separate lives off the set. Lange lives with Playwright-Actor Sam Shepard, who plays her former lover in the film, their six-month-old daughter Hannah and Lange's five...
...perhaps Gonzalez's greatest achievement has been to bring Spain into the European political mainstream. Said Jean Enkaoua, special correspondent of the French daily Le Dauphine Libere: "Spanish elections are no longer the stuff of passion and risk...
...heavy-breathing browsing crowd at Rizzoli's." Forget serious. The hollandaise sauce from La Cote Basque that Miranda pours over her lover, the custom-made sex apparatus that gets hoisted up the side of Watergate South because it is too big for the elevators--this is the stuff of Great Trash. In addition, there are herbal wraps at Elizabeth Arden and pokes at perfume ("Bunyan could see his obituary . . . Asphyxiated by Giorgio. Hardly fair, after he'd given up amyl nitrate"). The socially crucial pass in review: Donald Trump shows up in yet another novel. And the patrons...