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...examines, reaching an immediate confrontation with her subjects. One of her last images, "Hartley and Andrew" (1983), depicts her son and grandson. Both father and child are outlined in blue, as was Neel's habit at the time; seated on a stool, they stare not out, but into the viewer. Background is eliminated or, rather, Neel chooses the gessoed canvas for her background, as she does in many of these late works. This is the ultimate demonstration of self-confidence: Neel lets her sitters emerge from the raw canvas, sometimes leaving large amounts of space unmarked, as though saying...
...directors appears to be to make the audience laugh more than to engage them in a mystery. The actors remain entertaining and in character even during intermission, and they engage directly with the audience throughout the show. While the play may not make a lasting impression in its viewer's life, it certainly serves as a few hours of entertainment away from the doldrums of daily life...
...NEXT TIME, TRY: "The vice president may deal in code words and spin, but that's not my game. I said there would be no litmus test, and that's what I meant." Quick, clean and folksy-aggressive. And it doesn't leave the viewer wondering whether Bush really does use code words for the religious right (which, of course, he does...
ROUND 1: When the two of them walked out I thought: Could the focus groups really be saying that they demand a dark blue suit, white shirt and red tie? For this TV viewer, Gore looked simultaneously meaner and more solid. He dissembled, I think, when he denied having questioned Dubya's experience. But he aced the prescription drug question and left W. mumbling about "Mediscare...
...course, the network will still need to sell ads in prime time, and the argument is that live coverage will undermine it. Listen, guys: The viewer staying up 'til 3 a.m. to catch jai alai on her desktop is not going to watch the same game on tape-delay anyway. At the very least you'll be able to make up some revenue on cable. And part of the reason these Olympics have been such a dud is that few people are excited about them. Going live might actually help prime time, by sending the signal that the Games...