Word: seamlessness
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...with some clarity and vigor. You may not find much important about The Virgin and the Gypsy and Five Easy Pieces from Penelope Gilliatt's and Jacob Brackman's respective reviews in the New Yorker and Esquire, but you will remember that the critics write long summaries in seamless prose, and are apt to get a bit drippy when the right nerve-end is touched. You might remember even more: that Gilliatt likes cultural detachment and civility (in order to justify Peckinpah she evokes Brecht, for God's sake.) Or that Brackman had his adolescence in the late...
...night. A few middle-aged ship lovers on the Elizabeth think sentimental thoughts as they watch the Mary rush by, while necking teen-agers snicker. "As the darkness closes over and the long wakes are joined, the sentimentalists stand for a while watching the ocean recover its seamless inmensity. Then, one by one, like people dispersing downhill after a burial, they find their way to their cabins and close their doors...
...things moving; Sutherland's more flaccid beat and her style of gliding from note to note often turn song into somnolence. Sills' diction in English, French and Italian is superb; Sutherland's vocal placement produces mushy diction in any language, but makes possible an even more seamless beauty of tone than is available to Sills...
...fact, the claim on social fantasy that generates its price. And there is pathetically little money available to conserve it. The common objection is "let the Italians/ French/ Greeks look after their own art." But a wider view must surely argue that our consciousness of art should be seamless, that a picture's or a sculpture's right to survival is not to be determined by some box of frontiers...
...tends to imagine the history of Italian art as a formidable seamless block of marble, smoothed and polished by generations of research. In fact, its surface is pocked with holes left by artists whose names, but very little of whose work, survive. Next to nothing is known about their lives and personalities. One of these was Michel ino da Besozzo, who came from Pavia and became the leading artist in early 15th century Milan. Nearly all Michelino's work is lost, but most of what remains was recently bought by New York's Pierpont Morgan Library. It consists...