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...games after not having seen him in years. Dressed in white, standing next to hundreds of almost darkened fans, she stands up in the stands as Hobbs waits for the ball after two strikes. In this make-it-or-break-it moment, he notices Close, immersed in sunlight that makes her white hat look like a halo. Although people don't usually attend games dressed completely in white, nor would it seem likely that Hobbs would notice her alone among thousands of fans, the image is somehow more enchanting than trite...
This tall tale, based on Bernard Malamud's short story, utilizes many simplistic techniques--good and evil characters, sunlight and darkness, and slow motion--to heighten dramatic moments. Instead of creating painfully drippy scenes, these techniques suprisingly enhance them. Levinson succeeds in creating a visually beautiful, riveting and distinctly American fairy-tale...
...melodious Muzak version of "Send in the Clowns." The bronzed baby booties and plastic flowers on the coffee table have been freshly dusted, plastic slipcovers protect all the furniture, and a large banner proclaims "Welcome Home, Daddy." But Daddy cannot hear the chirping cardinals or see the sunlight on this bright spring day. A stroke has left him a vegetable, and created the conflict of a black and bizarre comedy about an American family gone wild. Don't worry," Eily coos comfortingly into the ear of her zombie-like spouse, "these things happen to everybody...
Describing the condition he has popularized as "nuclear winter," the noted scientist showed how two nuclear strikes could reduce the sunlight to only five percent of its normal intensity and lower surface temperatures to .23 Celsius...
Once cast, they are patinated in a striking range of mat colors-never quite the colors of nature, always with the volume knob turned high-and then assembled. Since the patinated color may break down under strong sunlight outdoors, Graves also uses fired-enamel colors on some pieces. Accident contributes its share here: because the thickness of the bronze casting varies in an unpredictable way, and hence the heat of the metal and the rate of fusion of the enamel vary as well, the enamel colors run and waver into one another like wet watercolor, somewhat blurring the identity...