Word: woven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women contributing to the show entitled "Common Threads" hail from just as many ethnic communities in Cambridge. Their traditionally woven fabric arts are complemented by detailed oral histories describing the artists back grounds in Greek, Italian, Haitian, Black, Portuguese, and other neighborhoods...
Heat and Dust is a magnificent composition, as beautiful as any of the Schumann pieces that Olivia plays throughout the film. The cinematography is as lovely as the acting, and the two plots, so cleverly woven together, mesmerize us for the entire two and a half hours. The climax of the film shows Ivory at his best: Olivia and her princely lover look serenely out of the window of their house, just as Anne peers in, looking for remnants of her aunt. Olivia and Anne seem to look straight into each other's eyes, but seconds later we realize that...
...business and as a society. It is prosperous and famously homogeneous, safe and civil, bound together by a social contract that is startlingly effective. Yet, paradoxically, Japan's very success has grown threatening, its future shadowed and complicated. The Japanese face new problems, inside, among their densely close-woven tribe, and outside, with the rest of the world...
...voices two tenor and two bass are tolerably strong the orchestra disciplined and subdued; the only touch that proves more distracting than ingenuous is the "Creative" black tie of the soloists, which includes a woven Indian style smock along with the cummerbunds and so forth. But what happens on stage necessarily leaves them pale by comparison. Carlo Rizzo who dances the rooster is astonishing as is Susan White as the Fox; the latter in a scarlet body stocking attacks and "dies" with a sinuous grace while Rizzo does best in the rooster's moments of sweaty panic. In one such...
...FANNY AND ALEXANDER, veteran director Ingmar Bergman creates such a world as only a child could see. Ten-year-old Alexander, the narrator of Bergman's latest and purportedly last work, lives in a "little" world where his imagination makes fantasy merge with reality. In this richly woven dream world, proportions are distorted, colors take on an added significance, and magic transforms the relationships between people...