Word: mannerize
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...they shout, "Feel good!" Such a one is STRICTLY BALLROOM, an audience hit at several festivals. In this Australian musical comedy, West Side Story meets Saturday Night Fever, and everyone -- especially the thoughtful moviegoer -- ends up exhausted. On a ballroom dance floor, director Baz Luhrmann sets in motion all manner of human and cinematic gargoyles. You've never seen so many fisheye close-ups of goofy faces caked with bad makeup. Watching the film is like being condemned to perform in a '30s dance marathon with a partner who just won't quit. They shoot Aussies, don't they...
...BOTTOM LINE: A casual manner belies a bright satirical intelligence in a short, sharp period comedy...
...wall label that prepares the eager visitor for the X-rated room in which these tidbits are displayed, the museum points out that "the artist and his wife function in a manner not unlike the vacuum cleaners," which is true, though not perhaps as meant. The text compares the "shocking" character of Made in Heaven to other once shocking works of the past, such as Courbet's Burial at Ornans, Matisse's Woman with the Hat and Manet's Olympia. And yet it adds, "All this is not to say that Koons' art is equivalent to the greatest work...
Kalkanis comes from the old school of former chairs Evan Rauch '91 and Robert C. Rhew '92. Rauch and Rhew ran councils that pushed strong student services agendas in a quiet, behind-the-scenes manner...
After the brief contextualization, Bloom would read the poems in translation. Not trying to play the role of a Russian poet, she interpreted the poems in a uniquely English manner. Her crisp, not exceptionally emotional delivery avoided the heavy tragedy of a Russian interpretation; her tone seemed more melancholic than anything else. She even added humor and irony to her reading of Tsvetaeva's "An Attempt at Jealousy." By offering an Anglicized version of the poems, she gave an American audience the opportunity to relate to the poetry on its own cultural terms, not simply as outsiders to the literary...