Word: worlds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dream world of the next few scenes vanishes the next night, a rainy and cold evening and Esteban's birthday. Affonso Beato, director of photography, employs clever technique interposing dot matrix drawings of women in red over Manuela's image. Similarly, the night's coldness is reflected in camera angles of rain on the windows and fog in mirrors. One can almost feel the chill of the evening on one's shoulders. This clammy sensation follows the viewer as Manuel and Esteban observe a performance of Streetcar Named Desire, a play holding special significance to Manuela. Twenty years before, Manuela...
...Thing, the story of technology/computer pioneer Jim Clark, both represent a move away from the typical biography in which the life of a single person is the subject of the book. Instead, these biographies tell readers about a larger phenomenon through a smaller lens, funneling the world of professional wrestling and technology into personal stories that readers can relate to and understand. Given that biography is used here as an enticement into an otherwise dry text, it seems that ever-problematic truth might not be the most important thing in writing biography...
...biographies released this fall was Edmund Morris' Dutch, a biography of former president Ronald Reagan that grappled with just this question. By including a fictional character in the midst of his otherwise serious biography, Morris caused an uproar over the standards of factual and historical accuracy in the literary world while asserting his belief in the artistic merit of biography. Although perhaps compromising the historical integrity of the book, Morris' use of fictional elements is a deft stroke used to illustrate the workings of his subject's mind...
...with utmost and convincing confidence a fashion show for the end of the school year. Breaking her reverie in a quick aside she tells me "You could be one of my models--I need male models." Her enthusiasm is infectious, and for an instant I can imagine all the world strutting in the perfect leaf-meal coat and my corduroys are momentarily glamorous--glamorous but not glitzy
...story is simple: In the last months of World War II, photogenic Brits Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) and Sarah Miles (Julianne Moore) embark on a torrid love affair. Sarah's husband Henry (Stephen Rea), a virtually impotent workaholic, gradually develops a friendship with handsome novelist Bendrix as the latter becomes increasingly obsessed with the illicit romance. Without warning, Sarah ends the relationship, crushing Bendrix; when we meet him, two years later, his bitterness has not diminished. When a chance meeting with Henry reawakens his barely submerged passion, he hires a private detective to follow his beloved and discover...