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...systematic methods. A composition of schematic figures was worked out, then in the studio his models assumed the dramatic attitudes required-poses that must have been hard to sustain, and had to be recorded rapidly. The final designs, scaled up on large pieces of paper, were transferred onto the wet plaster by dusting charcoal through the pinpricked outlines, or by cutting along them. The ceiling's highly complex scheme includes the creation of the world, the fall of man, a parade of figures who foretold the coming of Christ, and many purely decorative nude men, known as ignudi. Michelangelo studied...
When some members of the Harvard Outing Club took a canoeing trip over spring break, they got their feet wet in more ways than they expected...
...take on any writer, anywhere, on any show, and I will bury him," Gossage said in January after learning that Bruce Sutter, a star from the same era, got the Hall call. Gossage is still ticked. "These young writers have no clue," he told TIME. "They're completely wet. They're completely full...
Gossage really misfires with his argument that young writers are keeping him out of the Hall. A writer must cover baseball for 10 consecutive years before receiving a vote. So they're not as wet as Gossage suggests. The youngest of the Hall of Fame voters are old enough to have seen Gossage play...
...triple-sec alternative to Mel Brooks' very wet humor, Peter Greenaway is the commercial cinema's pre-eminent avant-gardist. Back before he made The Draughtsman's Contract and 8 1/2 Women, he made meticulously malevolent short films (seven are collected here) and The Falls, a three-hour fake-umentary about 92 people whose lives were altered by a Violent Unknown Event. The textual and textural density is intoxicating, the English wit so dry you could choke on it. A sturdy challenge for movie lovers--and unmissable...