Word: unraveling
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...statuettes of extraordinarily grotesque vigor, and others that are outstanding for their subtle realism. A hat and a wall-hanging made entirely of feathers brighten the display. There is a poncho with a checkerboard pattern, and many cloths so elaborately embroidered that the eye cannot be brought to unravel their designs. Rock crystal, jade, silver, ivory and turquoise jewelry conjure up court scenes of exotic splendor...
...contrast to Edward's revelation, Miss Bronte chose to unravel Jane's character step by step, following her growth from a mistreated Chile to governess of Thornfield. Jane Eyre's early years provide the film with its best opportunity to depict the author's social philosophy, and the scenes of the orphanage contain both excellent photography and acting. Joan Fountain plays the mature Jane Eyre with all the simplicity and firm sense of right and wrong that Miss Bronte intended...
During the 19th century, scholars set out to unravel the puzzle and have been at it ever since. Last week's show held 60 paintings of the "Bassano School," gathered from all over Italy by Licisco Magagnato, curator of Bassano's museum. Experts had spent a year winnowing out 22 paintings as Jacopo's alone, and these showed the old man's greatness. Each of his fine religious scenes had the delicate balance and glowing, almost phosphorescent colors that his contemporaries so admired. One painting, St. Valentine Baptizing St. Lucia, showed two cupids pouring golden rays...
...their search for facts. The comedy has practically no plot, and what dramatic conflict there is arises from the characters' ideas rather than from differences in their temperaments. And yet Pirandello, along with the Brattle players, keeps the audience continually chasing around after new strands of evidence, trying to unravel the stories of the two protagonists...
...most complex of Sheridan's plays. There is a constant interweaving of characters, and even in its original staging the plot would be sufficiently hard to follow. With all the stylistic frills that the Brattle has appended for its own mystical purposes, it becomes practically impossible to unravel the play's intrigues...