Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their time on stage. She places Angels in America where it belongs: in a complete moral universe of heroic risks, mutable ethics and terrible punishments. Altman's most recent directing project, last spring's revival of Mamet's Oleanna, was a wobbly production that tried to let its controversial subject matter speak for itself; it didn't. Here, however, she shows a sureness of perspective that recalls that other Altman, Robert, the filmmaker behind the human panoramas of Short Cuts and Nashville, and whose name has, in fact, long been mentioned to bring Angels to the screen...
...specifics of Dyson's meeting with Bill Gates, Vice-President Al Gore '69, and 99 high-level CEOs at Gates's own home--including a captivating description of a glassblower hired as entertainment for the occasion--eventually lead to the topic of singularity of experience, which follows the subject of intellectual property and its protection. This combination of nonchalant discussion and highly authoritative philosophizing pervades the latter chapters of the book...
From nuclear fallout shelters to dead flowers, the photographs in Archives and Archetypes, on display through this Sunday, at first seem like the work of nine different artists. But in fact, they are all by Barbara Norfleet, whose work defies a single style o simple subject...
...photographs in this series, and many of her series, Norfleet takes great care to carefully record, subject, name, date and location--as if she were doing an objective study of class relations. Yet somehow these photographs seem staged. Everyone is in place in this world captured by Norfleet; expressions, clothing and martini glasses are all just so. But is she revealing her subjects to us, or has she created her own class of sorts...
...Night Stand charts the effects of a casual infidelity on the life and marriage of a commercial director, admirably portrayed by Wesley Snipes. Although it lapses towards the end, it is better than most Hollywood fare in dealing with its provocative subject matter. The film attempts to address the issues of adultery and loss intelligently, and doesn't make the mistake of sensationalizing the interracial relationships (Snipes cheats on his Asian-American wife with a white woman) at its center. However it is far from equal to Vegas, or Figgis' earlier films Internal Affairs and the lesser-known noir confection...