Word: weightlessness
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...meant to be an overt sexual solicitation. "It's more of an invitation," he says, to experience what he calls "osmosis," an existence as form rather than idea. But it's difficult to look at "Bride" and not see in it a female praying mantis made up of weightless rings of paper and metal, like delicate oriental seeds...
...window of a descending airplane, a city sprawls out in astonishing intricacy, a maze-like network of stacked structures and winding, convoluted pathways. Unfamiliar in unexpected ways, it reveals the obsessive and overwrought patterns of human activity in all their inscrutable complexity. Too bad that, in the last weightless moments before touchdown, the city metamorphoses into something more pedestrian--disappearing, finally, into the invisibility with which we cloak the everyday. Up close, we see nothing...
...anonymizing code. "Inevitably, somebody will buy the product and solicit sex with a call girl and then someone will try to pass a law banning it," says Grossman. "Then we'll find out how both the legislators and courts feel." Just a friendly reminder that while we may feel weightless in cyberspace, real-world rules still apply...
...German accent, folks!); he creates a string of finely crafted caricatures. Truth be told, the Neil Simon-Cy Coleman-Carolyn Leigh musical hasn't aged all that well. Based on Patrick Dennis' satiric memoir of a fictional grande dame of the stage and screen, it's too sketchy and weightless, with a rather severe dramatic flaw: the central character (played by the full-voiced, full-figured Faith Prince) is constantly upstaged by her multi-role-playing co-star...
...performance, their native Sweden observes Halloween not as a night of costumed revelry, but as a solemn day of remembrance, putting flowers on the graves of ancestors. If the Cardigans' demeanor tended towards the sober, the music was never less than thrilling. Judging from Nina Persson's previously weightless vocals on such vintage pop songs as "Lovefool," I never expected her fiery onstage performance. Bristling with sexuality in her skin-tight leather pants, Persson sang with harnessed intensity and a flirtatious half-smile, as if her very appearance were a wicked, illicit joke between her and the audience...