Word: triton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scholarly care and storytelling verve. Each episode is dramatically built, often starting with one key event, then working backward and forward from it. The historical medicine is enlivened with spoonfuls of pop-culture sugar. (In one old TV ad, Marilyn Monroe urges a gas-station attendant to "put Royal Triton in Cynthia's little tummy." Cynthia is her new car.) Not least important is Paul Foss's urgent theme music, one of the best TV scores since The Civil...
...time Seurat is thinking, editing, adjusting. Throughout his career, his efforts are directed to refracting what he sees through what he knows. He quotes Poussin, Ingres, classical marbles, Han figurines; the boy hollering in the water in Une Baignade, Asnieres was once a classical Triton blowing a conch. But the sources are perfectly absorbed in his pictorial intents. For this reason alone, Seurat was an artist of a kind unimaginable in our own fin de siecle, now that art education has been lobotomized by the excision of formal drawing and the study of prototypes...
...again. Any change in the landscape that shows up in the second version -- new lava or other debris, for example -- would be strong evidence of volcanism, making Venus only the fourth body in the solar system, after Earth, Jupiter's moon Io and Neptune's moon Triton, where eruptions have been spotted...