Word: thunderclouds
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Mark Rothko is the great thundercloud of 20th century American painting, a man who struggled to find a way for mere pigment to summon immense reservoirs of feeling, and who took his own life when the struggle proved too much. This is why one of the most baffling episodes in Rothko's story has to do with the Seagram murals, a suite of vast, brooding canvases he produced for Manhattan's sparkling Four Seasons restaurant. Rothko was an artist who could say, and mean it: "The sense of the tragic is always with me when I paint." And the Four...
...glum, cardigan-swaddled Catherine doesn't sound like the right kind of role for Paltrow, whose most successful movies give her the sort of sweetly wispy presence one associates with cirrus clouds. This is more the forbidding thundercloud area of Mary-Louise Parker (who originated the role on Broadway and who some thought was unfairly overlooked for the movie). Paltrow was in the later London version of the play, directed by her old Shakespeare in Love comrade John Madden, and two years after was cast in his film version...
...WHAT'S IN A NAME? Toyota Canada's special edition Celica Tsunami, available in color schemes like "thundercloud" and promising a "new wave of bold style," was renamed the Celica Sports Package last week out of sensitivity to the tsunami victims. Across the Atlantic, South African food franchise Mugg and Bean dropped its bacon-and-Thai-sauce Tsunami chicken burger (although it plans to revive a renamed sandwich in April...