Word: visualizers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ciulei's vision, which downplays romance and sees courtship and marriage as raw struggles for power, owes much to Brook. But the insights into the characters, the reasoned resistance to happy endings and especially the mesmeric visual imagery are Ciulei's own. From the first moment, this Dream shows itself to be more about grim realities and revelatory nightmares. The captive Amazon Queen Hippolyta (Lorraine Toussaint), garbed as a soldier and coiffed with a Grace Jones-style Mohawk, stands mute yet defiant as the guards of Duke Theseus (Gary Reineke) surround her. They tear off her uniform and toss...
...miraculous that he had the wit and energy to remember, much less to create. Welch's world is barely larger than a sickroom, but its travel books intrigued some famous tourists, including Edith Sitwell and W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bowen and E.M. Forster, who praised the author's "sensitiveness, visual and tactile." The style-struck critic Cyril Connolly described Welch's prose as ripening "like an October pear that measures every hour of sunshine against the inevitable frost...
...Tahiti (with documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty) to make this ethnographic idyll spiked with Hollywood-style melodrama. A boy who has fallen in love with a local princess dives for pearls in a deep-sea grotto that is guarded by a possessive shark. The simple story is told with rapturous visual poetry that captures both nature's beauty and its threat. Murnau, 42, had his own rendezvous with tragedy: he died in a car crash shortly before Tabu's release...
Acting on the Harvard Alumni Association’s Board of Overseers for six years, Lithgow began pushing the arts agenda over a decade ago when he launched the Arts First festival—Harvard’s annual celebration of visual and performing arts—and instituted the Harvard Arts Medal...
Recalling times when advisers were not even aware of the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department, DUS Paul Stopforth says, “I do think that those people, students or tutors, who are responsible for advising in the Houses, they would need to know something about all these departments at Harvard...