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Somerville Theater seemed like a rather unusual place for Williams to perform--the theater's interior is scattered with an odd array of gilded Corinthian columns painted black and silver reminiscent of severe Ayn Rand lightning bolts. The rest of the theater had an almost sickingly disproportionate amount of mauve. A mostly middle-aged crowd, situated comfortably in plush seats, waited anxiously for Williams arrival...
Fade in on a luscious blond, sleek as a vintage Corvette, who presses her breast against a car hood while an anonymous man caresses her skin as if it were rich Corinthian leather. The scene is from a film being shot by director James Ballard (James Spader), and the star is Ballard's wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger...
...Schumacher, director of Forever, hasn't Burton's creepy poetic vibes, but in The Client he showed real storytelling talent. He also wanted to give the series a fresh look, with a new Batman-Val Kilmer for Michael Keaton-in a new costume and car, both retooled in fine Corinthian leather. Even Gotham gets a make-over...
...Like the Corinthian king who was condemned to roll a huge stone up a hill in Hades only to have it roll down again on nearing the top, the Crimson (7-12,3-4) rallied from a 15-point first-half deficit to go ahead of the Big Red (6-13,1-6) in the second half, only to have Cornell mount a 20-3 run in the game's final minutes to come away with a blow...
What makes Strasser's work refreshing is its liberation from slick superficial image making of either the "traditional" or the trendy variety -- no capriciously transplanted Corinthian columns, no aren't-we-important mahogany wainscoting. "The problem with most interior designers," he says, "is that they just decorate. I try to design architecture indoors...