Word: turbidity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film, we're ready for the traditional, Austenian happy ending. Rozema has made us want it by putting us through a more turbid, uninhibited version of what is coldly reserved from the novel. Rozema has said that she thinks of Fanny Price as a "test" created by Austen to experiment with the reactions of those around her. Certainly Rozema has made Fanny and Mansfield itself into a test of her own. But can America handle Austen with a little modern spice...
...color photography proved to be nearly an act of archaeology. Hardy tested armfuls of swatches for the mammoth curtain, assessed carpet samples from several continents, appraised scores of variations on the foil wallpaper used in the hall's public areas. Misguided renovations in years past didn't help. The turbid purple-and-brown pattern on the auditorium carpet got that way because the first replacement had been matched to the worn, filthy colors of the original. Hardy's research revealed that in 1932, before 100 million shoes had shuffled through the room in its first nine years, the carpet...
Subtitled Five Years Inside the Franklin Avenue Posse (a reference to an Afro-Caribbean street gang in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y.), Douglas Century's Street Kingdom (Warner Books; 415 pages; $25) charts a turbid interracial friendship between two ambitious young...
...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...