Word: vase
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says Singer Linda Ronstadt, "is the first woman to match any man on his own terms as a songwriter, guitar player or as an incredibly magnetic human being." Among other things, Joni is a focal point for elegance in a profession of rumpled informality A Persian carpet and a vase of red roses are de rigueur stage decorations for concerts. Most rock-concert performers, bored with singing their ultimate paean for the umpteenth time, wait for their own turns on the program in backstage trailers. But when Joni goes onstage, so do the other entertainers. Standing between speakers and behind...
That is understandable. The script pretty well maroons him in a tide of bromides about the dirty business of spying. Winner, a director whose idea of filling the frame is to put something, anything-a sink, a vase-in the foreground of every shot, makes only occasional feints toward rescuing his star. However, there is a very clever, quietly brutal assassination scene. Some estimable players-Paul Scofield, John Colicos, J.D. Cannon-are present to lend support. There is even a certain obtuse symmetry to the carnage that closes the film. ∙Jay Cocks
...feedback one gets in so much art today is enormous. It is a matter of sensual wholeness. The blue of the Dance invades the painted room, drenching its space in an oceanic full ness of hue. In it, the hot pink of the chair back and table legs and vase glows with preternatural intensity. Color for Matisse was not a property of objects. It was the stuff of which they were made. And space itself was less a describable structure-which it was for Picasso or Braque-than a color-filled void in which the eye immersed itself. Years later...
...vase shattered into the silence...
...photographs is further underlined by the prosaic, sometimes ironic details he has captured--a box of cookies on a mantle, a box of Kools on the girl's bed, photographs within photographs. Often, Getsinger's still shots are as exciting as his portraits: a picture of a crystal vase with carnations behind a window screen is a study in the metamorphosis of texture...