Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...kind of droves that require the pull of a whole retrospective today. In 1859 he made $3,000 in three weeks -- at 25 cents a ticket -- by displaying Heart of the Andes, his enormous image of mountains, gorge, valley, river and jungle, in a studio on Tenth Street in New York City...
There is not a made-up leaf or an ornithologically unidentifiable bird in Church's South American paintings; though they were all done back in his New York studio; every hair on the tiny llamas looks right. Yet those who thought Church's paintings of Cotopaxi were faithful to the primal scene of nature were wrong. They were more than faithful; they were, so to speak, ecstatic. Nobody could call the view of Cotopaxi dull, but when Church saw it in 1853, it completely lacked the palms, writhing creepers, streams and waterfalls he would later give it. "The big mountain...
Brazil (1985). The movie too good to be seen! That's what Universal Pictures suggested when it hedged on releasing Terry Gilliam's apocalyptic satire about a man caught in the vise of bureaucracy. The studio couldn't see that Brazil does brilliantly what movies do best: create teeming, coherent worlds beyond our imagining...
Hundreds of thousands of Rumanians took joyously to the streets, running, jumping, riding on tanks. "The army is with us!" they shouted. "We are the people!" Crowds stormed Ceausescu's palace and rushed to the state television studio to put out the message "We won. The dictator has fallen." Ceausescu's son Nicu, party chief in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu (pop. 173,000), was captured and paraded before the cameras. His face was bruised, and his eyes flicked in terror from side to side, as if seeking a way to escape...