Word: treating
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...loved the stage; British paintings like Gallery of the Old Bedford treat the worn, overloaded gilt-and-mirror interiors with the seriousness another artist might have brought to an Italian church. Since Sickert had spent time in Venice, there may be some subliminal connection between the clusters of audience in derby hats, leaning precariously from the balconies and reflected in the mirrors, and the more elegant crowds that thronged Tiepolo's ceilings. Sickert never condescended, and his portraits of the now forgotten stars of this dead form of entertainment are done with fine straightforwardness: The Lion Comique, 1887 (patter singers...
...apartment in North Philadelphia with the city's jagged skyline pointing up behind, Orphans traces the lives of Treat (Joe Pacheco) and Phillip (Steven Longmuir), two orphaned brothers in their 20s. Treat, a petty crook with violent tendencies, has kept his simple-minded younger brother Phillip alone in the house for years. Phillip's combination of childlike ignorance and unnerving acuity is at once beguiling and somewhat unbelievable...
Life in the apartment changes when Treat decides to kidnap a well-dressed drunk, but Harold (Ted Kazanoff), also an orphan, turns out to be a professional gangster with a taste for whisky who has fled trouble in Chicago...
Pacheco's Treat rushes through the apartment, alternately bounding with glee and storming with rage. In several frightening scenes, Pacheco successfully enacts Treat's childish inability to control himself as he mercilessly abuses his brother...
...like this. Forget the furrowed brow and the repeated candlelight reading of the lyric sheet with a glass of cheap red beside the CD jewel box. Whenever a performer of Leonard Cohen's high caliber and even higher seriousness comes out with a new album, the instinct is to treat it as if it were an invitation to a semiotics seminar or a cryptogram from a reclusive shaman poet. But just this once, never mind all that. The Future is a record to get onto, like an express from the far side of paradise, even before you get into...