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...other life, watching the vagabonds move in and around my path. But in my free-fall, I have no control. I may eventually hit the sidewalk. I may spin here in mid air forever, continually fascinated by my four limbs, unattached to any points around me. I may suddenly swoop back up and find myself breathless on the top of the building. Not knowing my fate, I ponder my origin: Did I jump or did I fall? Am I in control...
This interdependence of man and animal lends the people themselves to dress as animals as they call on the spirits. Their ceremonial masks are the focal point of this show, and their beauty blends both religious utilitarianism and aesthic form. A forehead mask, of a loon, an elegant swoop of painted wood, decorated with seagull feathers, eagle down and willow branches, becomes the frightened figure of a dying animal...
...seems difficult for the University to deny RTH's charges. And although Donald Moulton, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, has stated that Harvard does not "want this to be an effort where we swoop down, pluck folks out of some place and plop them down somewhere else," the strategy of quietly pushing the displaced tenants into housing they don't want hardly seems superior...
...death, hope and conception with little action and a lot of talk. Again--when you have Paradise as the scene the danger lies in seeming ponderous. Here the solution--as in, say, "The Blue Angel"--is sensuality: it takes care of fluidity, momentum and vividness in a fell swoop if it's used right. Hershman does, by making his serpent a double image, played by two women, Gypsy Knocks and Victoria Kins. They never stop moving, swaying and undulating in a coiling mass that envelopes a fascinated Eve in the sexuality of knowledge and mortality...
...would like to say that Siddhartha is beautiful to look at. It was filmed in Northern India, and clearly the film-makers were trying very hard for breathtaking landscapes--they blur flowers, set suns galore, swoop in on reflecting bodies of water. But their idea of painting a humid. ethereal environment is fuzzy backgrounds, mist, and drippy trees. When they try to make a visual delight out of five straight minutes of someone being cremated (the embers glowing in the night), the effect is aesthetically negligible...