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...best paintings, brilliant details combine to create a timeless monumentality. In The Haldi Grinders, a group of women engaged in a mundane activity, crushing turmeric, are obscured by trees, their bodies distilled into a clutch of hands that grip the crushing wheel; we spy on them and their vivid hands as if trespassing on a religious mystery. The young Brahmins of Brahmacharis, with their distinctive faces, look like so many who still sit beside temples in South India, yet they could also be ancient hierophants sharing a hushed secret. In such works, writes Dalmia, "the contemporary [is] elevated...
...April 2003, while the world's many eyes were trained on Iraq, and vivid images of U.S. tanks settled along Baghdad streets, the CIA's analysts and operators were sending urgent messages to the Saudis: something was coming...
...pray at memorials in the different languages of the 1.5 million killed. But by the time he reached the final plaque, the rain had stopped, the umbrellas were tucked away, and the pack of reporters noticed that across the broad field of half-standing brick barracks of Birkenau, a vivid rainbow had appeared. The editors of TIME, like those who A. M. Rosenthal worked for back in the 1950s, would surely not normally consider this news. But on a day that the German Pope came to Auschwitz to ponder God?s silence, that surprising explosion of colors seemed well worth...
...prove it has no color prejudice. It give us one blue creature who's benign (Kelsey Grammer's hirsute Hank McCoy, head of the Ministry of Mutant Affairs) and one blue meanie (Rebecca Romijn's Mystique). But it has no secret technology to transform tired ideas into a vivid movie. Instead it ransacks the fantasy-film trunk for hand-me-down thrills, and counts on the sleek beauty of Romijn, Famke Janssen (quite fetching as Class 5 mutant Jean Gray) Halle Berry (the wonder weather woman Storm) to lure the boy market into theaters. For the rest of us, there...
...create his own voice, grammar and verdant, wildly associative language. "I needed to sing in that language," he says in the Scorsese movie, "which was a language that I hadn't heard before." Maybe you had to be young back then to appreciate Dylan's knack of painting a vivid portrait of some awful moment in time, then of drawing a grander, more troubling lesson from...