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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their names are Smudge, Sparky, Frankie and Jinx. That should give the viewer a fair indication of the kind of musical presented here. The very first song, "Three Coins in a Fountain," confirms one's every suspicion. All around, eyes glaze with nostalgia as, almost without pause, the quartet swings into "Gotta be This or That...
...subjects are radically different. "Monolith-- The Face of Half Dome" (1927), one of Adams's mountain scenes, is paired with his decisively urban 1940 print of the RCA Building in New York. Both works focus on a structure of monumental scale. Yet Adams crops both photos so that the viewer sees parts of other, similar details in the surroundings--other mountains in the former, other buildings in the latter. The effect is to focus our eye on the overall scene and atmosphere rather than simply the massiveness of the central subject. The result is that the viewer is impressed...
Many of Adams's photographs are similarly evenhanded--his is a perspective where the camera more often records than interacts with the world. But, other works in this show, like "Long Beach Cemetery" (circa 1940), engages the viewer with its ironic subject matter. The scene contrasts a classicalstyle sculpture from a cemetery in the foreground with various industrial eyesores in a background of grass and trees. It is a very strange and compelling image...
...which features heavy-metal bands every Saturday night on the Headbangers' Ball program, acknowledged metal's ascendancy by inviting Metallica to play on its 1991 video awards show. On that show, the Viewer's Choice Award for Best Video went to Queensryche, another metal band with a broad following. In October the heavy-metal scene will get its own Grammys when the first Concrete Foundations Awards are held in Los Angeles...
From the opening moments, the audience is struck by Simpson's convincing limp and fearful apologetic manner. Her dreamy, distracted gaze is both believable and endearing. And when she slouches pigeon-toed, unaware of her wrinkled sweater and bunched stockings, the viewer is convinced that Laura has escaped into a world...