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...Pleasantville, a '50s TV show somewhere between "Leave it to Beaver" and "The Donna Reed Show." For him, it offers an escape from his less-than-idyllic real life to a haven where the weather is always sunny, everybody is gainfully employed and lives in a spick-and-span house with a white picket fence, and the main characters enjoy the kind of secure, comfortable family life he's never known. His obsession with Pleasantville borders on the pathological, or, in the eyes of his sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon), the merely pathetic. But thanks to the intercession of a cheerfully...
...Goya he wasn't, nor a Velazquez, nor a Titian. An American Picasso, maybe? No: the oeuvre lacks that vast span. For someone who had the impact on international art that he did, Pollock had a bafflingly short career. He didn't attain any degree of originality until after his 30th birthday. The arc of the career rises from 1943, when the collector and gallery owner Peggy Guggenheim commissioned him to paint a mural for her Manhattan apartment, to the early '50s--no more than 10 years. The final four years of his life brought a string of pictorial failures...
...that Depeche Mode's (debatable) historical validity has been established, we come to the matter at hand--The Singles 86>98, a recently released compilation of the group's singles of the 80's and 90's. This two-CD set does indeed span twelve years of releases, which is odd considering that the band has been around for eighteen years. There's a good reason for this--Depeche Mode reached an epiphany of sorts around 1986 (didn't we all?). Pre-1986 Depeche Mode was pretty out of control. The band only hit its groove with the release...
Williams stopped briefly before her third song, "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road." She explained, "This song is about life through a child's eyes." In the span of two hours, Williams showed so much of herself, one was left ashamed. Did she not care that the audience had given nothing of themselves? But it is this exact artistic truth without expectation of sympathy that transcends mere integrity, that makes Williams' music so inviting. Speaking about "Right In Time," an achingly passionate ballad of lost love, Williams related that "on Good Morning America, they wanted us to leave out that...
Kerry encouraged his audience to devote four or five years to their community, working as teachers, in the armed services or in the police corps. He stressed that there is time for "four or five careers in the span of a lifetime...