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Whether as Comedy Andie here or Tragedy Andie in Harrison's Flowers, MacDowell always rewards watching. Her long, lovely face is both active and pensive; it often seems torn between remembered joy and anticipated anguish. She also has the gift of cuing a change in a film's mood by letting the blood drain from her face...
...attention to: the visual aesthetic. This is made confoundingly difficult, however, by the almost comically dismal lighting. In order to set what seems like an intended an aura of doom and gloom, the lighting plot has virtually no light. The effect doesn’t enhance the mood; it does, though, enhance squinting...
...Eye” and “Those Crimson Tears” are immediately appealing. Yet it is the album as a whole and its centerpiece, the seven-and-a-half-minute-long “Beneath the Heart of Darkness,” that linger longest. Projecting a mood of muted, melancholy hope, there is something subtly uplifting in these beautiful songs...
Despite the controversy surrounding “Decadenza,” the mood Saturday night was less sexually charged than generically Harvard. Blissfully ignorant of their lack of rhythm, girls and guys gyrated stiffly to the sounds of Ja Rule, J. Lo and other J-prefixed pop/rap superstars. First-years outnumbered upperclassmen by far and, by all accounts, the night was fairly tame. So much for decadence...
Humans crave stimulants such as caffeine because they improve mood and performance, but we’re particular about our modes of ingestion. For example, No-Doz is an efficient and inexpensive Caffeine Delivery System (CDS for short), yet most users find coffee more appealing. Coffee’s sensory delights of heat, flavor and aroma are the reasons why stimulant-seekers are willing to pay three bucks for a cup of caffeine that would cost 10 cents in pill form...