Word: moon
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...women identifies herself as a 19-year-old Boston University junior named Moon. She says she used to frequent the Boathouse Bar, but started coming to the Bow early this fall because it's "a different place, nothing special...
Despite his seasoning, Culkin was by far the most natural of the hundred or so boys Columbus auditioned for Home Alone. "The others seemed to be playing to the moon and the stars," says Columbus. "Mack was very real and very honest. He seemed to be a real kid, one that you wouldn't be annoyed with if you had to spend two hours with." To induce Culkin to learn his lines, Columbus rewarded him with a game of Nintendo after each day of rehearsal in the Chicago studio where the picture was shot. Culkin was also entranced by Columbus...
...Gogh. "There's only Ryder in American painting," remarked Kuhn. "No artist ever used more of the vital energies of the imagination than Ryder," wrote Marsden Hartley in 1936, "and no one was ever truer to his experience . . . One finds his elements so perfectly true that even the moon herself must recognize them if she had time to look." For Jackson Pollock, in 1944, "the only American master who interests me is Ryder." From Andrew Wyeth and Morris Graves in the 1940s to Bill Jensen today, Ryder influenced or at least had some talismanic value for a striking number...
...dozen paintings before which one can feel the enthusiasm Ryder's name has always generated. Most of these are his famous "marines" -- dark, concentrated images of boats, the fishing smacks of his New England youth, pitted against wind and wave under the centered, tide- dragging eye of the moon. But then there is the rest of his work, and especially the earlier religious and allegorical material, much of which is bathetic and some quite ludicrous in its earnest gropings toward elevated pictorial speech...
...actually painted on board ship, returning from a trip to Europe) go far beyond the self-conscious poeticism that infests so much of Ryder's work. They are diminutive in size but large in scale. Thick darkness and eerie light turn in the sky; the sea heaves, scattered with moon flakes and endowed with a Courbet-like solidity. "My soul, like to a ship in a black storm,/ Is driven, I know not whither" -- Vittoria's dying words in John Webster's Jacobean tragedy The White Devil seem to fit this recurrent dream of Ryder's coastal childhood, the boat...