Word: terrariums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feelings about it are finally ambivalent. Scorsese feels the chill of his mean streets in his bones, and he makes us feel it too. There is neither warmth nor comfort in the places his people seek to escape that cold. The very light of the film suggests a terrarium existence. The detailing is not just a matter of touches; it is an impasto that, instead of being a stylistic device, be comes the root substance of the work...
...away from horse racing-and her only apparent idiosyncrasy-is caring for her three pet rats-Peanuts, Pepper and Paprika. When she travels to wherever the racing season takes her, Robyn carries the rats in a handbag; at her home on Long Island, N.Y., she keeps them in a terrarium. "They're nice to go home to," she says. "They're very tame and come when called...