Word: daringness
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Kundun may be Martin Scorsese's most daring film to date. There isn't much talk in Kundun, and what talk there is isn't especially revealing or eloquent. However, this ceases to matter very much as the breathtaking cinematography tells its own story, accompanied by a sonorously haunting score...
Set in post-WWI London, the movie follows Clarissa Dalloway as she goes about her preparations for a party she is to give that evening. Apart from the jarring and somewhat dislocating opening, the film remains remarkably faithful to the book. Towards the end, the movie lapses almost completely into...
In the '20s, American painters, sculptors and architects still defined themselves largely in terms of European models, whether of "traditional" art or of Modernism. But the decade also saw the emergence of a genius of American design who was perhaps the greatest architect of the century: Frank Lloyd Wright. The...
The scene belonged on trash TV, full of staged bluster and righteous fury and lots and lots of diversions. There was James Carville, the President's alpha attack dog, daring independent counsel Kenneth Starr to subpoena him by mocking both his faith and his fervor. "He goes down to the...
Tower Records looms over the corner of Mass. Ave and Newbury St. in all of its sandstone and blue-steel glory, daring passers by to share in its decadence. Indeed, everything about Tower Records screams excess, from the double revolving doors to the haphazardly placed blue and orange neon lighting...