Word: upon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, the reason why Lyne's film works is that it focuses upon the potential of film to beautify even the grotesque. The effect is a little artificial, a spectacle designed to seduce the viewer into turning away from the moral problem of the film. In a time when films often try to say something about life, here is a film about the power of film. Irene Hahn...
...expensive prints were purchased through an engraver, who either sold you the actual engraving plate (at a much more expensive price) or a single print off the plate. One could purchase the cheaper "etching," a process in which the artist scratched out places that he wanted to appear dark upon printing on a metal plate, or the more expensive "engraving." Engravings involved much more skill on the part of the artist; it took many years to train the hand to hold the carving utensil that shaped the metal beneath...
...section, and that it would be easy to produce." While putting up the production may not have been easy, the operatic rendition of Edith Wharton's famous tale scheduled to open this Friday in the Eliot House dining hall is as richly storied as the novel it is based upon, backed as it is by the musical passion of both Allanbrook Senior and Junior, and that of Brett Egan '98, Lee Poulis '02 and others...
When Douglas Allanbrook began composing in the '50s after several years with Nadia "a lot of people thought of the necessity of writing American works" that would be accessible and relevant to American audiences. Along these lines, a friend suggested that he write an opera based upon Ethan Frome--Edith Wharton's tragic account of forbidden love set in frigid Starkfield, Mass. Allanbrook wrote the opera in Naples in 1951 on the continuation of a Fulbright scholarship that allowed him to go to the opera at Santo Carlo every weekend. A friend he met at Harvard, John Hart...
These anecdotes are indications that the apocalypse is upon us. Technology has always palpably changed human relationships, for better and for worse. We can imagine the closeness and joy an elderly Eastern European babushka must have felt in the early 20th century when she used a telephone for the first time, and heard the chirping words of her grandchild coming over the wire from the New World. We can lament the suburban neighborhoods that grew quiet when television held post-war children in the living room in the hours when they used to play Kick the Can. We can relax...