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...without seeming watered-down. She has a few moments of transparent beauty on “Come Undone” and “The City Consumes Us,” the latter a song that frames her lilting voice with arpeggios to fit the slightly melancholy mood. Although Pollock sometimes affects (whether consciously or unconsciously) Nina Persson of the Cardigans, and although she is by no means an amazing vocalist, it’s comforting to note that she doesn’t try too hard in extending her voice or her credibility...
...discussing meaning. True, formalist critics had thrown out social conventions of meaning in favor of formal analysis, but they then proceeded to use their discussion of form as a platform for the construction of abstract interpretations. Consider what happened with one of the classic formalist darlings, the painter Jackson Pollock. Formalist critics raved about his explosively gestural drips and splashes, but only so that they could begin talking about those marks as vehicles of existential self-expression. Likewise, formalists loved the austere combinations of line, plane and primary colors favored by the painter Piet Mondrian, but only because they offered...
...lime Jell-O.) At the end, reality forces a new color on Nameless: black, for death. The cinematographer is Christopher Doyle, who has shot most of Wong Kar-wai's films. You can sense the camera in his hands as surely as you could feel the brush in Jackson Pollock's. Doyle is a calligrapher with light...
Verba seems confident that she will rise to the challenge, citing her extensive credentials and familiarity with Harvard’s confusing structure.“The only organizational chart of Harvard University I’ve ever seen is at the Museum of Modern Art, painted by Jackson Pollock,” he jokes, adding that Sniffin-Marinoff’s tenure at Radcliffe will ensure she is comfortable in her new position...
...Baby and Repulsion, I don’t see much chance that Renee will be upset. Aghdashloo wasn’t even nominated for a SAG; this doesn’t make an Oscar win for her impossible—Marcia Gay Harden got no SAG nomination for Pollock and walked off with the Oscar—but it does make a victory for her further unlikely. If Aghdashloo wins, it’ll be a jaw-dropper...