Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this Friday, a dark curly-haired woman sits on one of the bus' blue and red plastic seats. Eventually she is joined by 11 other women. No men are present...
...buzz of chatter permeates the overheated bus. The conversations change topics with amazing speed. A pair of women, one of them the dark-curly haired women, discuss a mysterious stain on someone's scalp, then start talking about a math problem they couldn't solve--something about substituting theta for x. A few minutes later, the dark-curly haired woman exclaims, inexplicably, "But he's a married man, with kids...
William Hogarth invented the panorama of social class as a subject in English painting. Rowlandson, who was eight when Hogarth died, continued the tradition, with an equal gusto but greater humor. The dark side of Hogarth, his capacity for moral rage, is largely missing in Rowlandson, and his interest in art theory is entirely absent. The biggest difference of all was that Rowlandson had none of Hogarth's ambition for major categories of art, not just history painting, but oil painting itself. He was perfectly content with pen and watercolor. But his mastery of them was complete, and it shows...
...time trees were sacred. Gods inhabited them and took their forms. Trees were druidic. They rose out of the earth, gesticulating, tossing their hair. They were the tenderest life-form: cooling, sheltering, calming, enigmatic. Or else they might harbor terrors: beasts and devils in the dark forest. They were, in either case, magic. Still are, of course, although they have also evolved into mere lumber...
...that doesn't make viewers feel they are being force-fed a civics lesson. But perhaps the movie is no documentary. Its tone, which tempers populist anger with deadpan facetiousness, is heard in much modern comedy -- sort of Laid Off with David Letterman. Moore classifies the film as "a dark comedy, social satire, 'mockumentary...