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Obviously, instead of searching the Bests for this year's perfect metaphor, we should be studying the Worsts, some of which we have also identified. The Environment rubric "A Little Is Too Much" refers to the discovery that even trace amounts of dioxin can be harmful. Doesn't it also apply to the year as a whole? A little O.J. is too much; even a trace amount of Newt Gingrich goes a long way; a mere grain of Forrest Gump is dangerous. In the cases of love, valour and compassion, of course, too much would still have been too little...
...Valentine and the judge. There is an understanding and trust that develops over the course of the film. At first, they are uncomfortable together. He attacks her innocence, while she criticizes his lack of faith. Valentine is disturbed by this man's hardened scowl, but she is determined to trace its roots...
...crooked. You cannot teach in these circumstances." The Federal Reserve Board at the moment is considering a new regulation that would require all small businesses applying for bank loans to identify themselves by race and gender. To what one-thousandth will the Fed measure my bloodline? (Was there a trace of some pristine, nonwhite, non- European victimness four generations back?) All is well. Subdividing bureaucratic determinism files away more millions of citizens in its racial pigeonholes...
...Giovanni "went clean" -- theatrical slang for sold out -- before the first curtain went up, and there were scuffles in the line for tickets to his New York City lieder recital last month. Onstage his presence is riveting. Both Figaro and Leporello are servants, but there is no trace of the oaf or the buffoon in Terfel's portrayals. In both parts he can be physically threatening. In Don Giovanni he is a formidable enforcer of the Don's will, grabbing the young husband Masetto and spinning him into vertigo. With the equally tall James Morris singing the Don, the stage...
Though lyrically involved with the Italian past, Twombly seldom quotes directly from its dead artists. An exception is Leonardo, whose temperament -- combining a fastidious eye for minute incident with a pessimistic, even apocalyptic imagination -- evidently intrigues him.The most successful trace is in Leda and the Swan, 1962, which enlarges the turbid vortices of the Deluge studies into a frenzy of scribbles and feathers, sexual and comic at the same time...