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...Because the film’s release coincided with a transition in China’s national consciousness, “Yellow Earth” represents a mood and a filmmaking style that straddles two distinct eras, a socialist world of grand, heroic visions and a new, urbanized Chinese narrative...
...enough to just be able to play any more,” he says. “If you are going to be playing you can’t limit yourself to being just one kind of musician. Be the player that can play in any style; be multifaceted.”Tom Everett says the committee brought Hargrove in addition “because he has had an association with Roy Haynes; we bring in a senior established jazz master and a younger musician to see the tradition is going to live on and that the sound...
...latest volume of poetry by Charles Wright, it is helpful to think of that one. As the 20th volume for the poet—a Pulitzer and Griffin Prize winner—“Sestets” marks a high point in the progress of a style of contemplation that Wright has made his own over the years.Although Wright has always shown a skill for distilling an experience and recording its essence, his “Sestets” are, by the definition of their form, pithier than previous poems. In these nearly haiku-like meditations, Wright recursively combs...
...perspective gets handed back and forth every chapter, which becomes monotonous over time and feels artificial as the story itself gets more dynamic. Still, the alternation lets Wray probe Will’s psyche from a number of different angles without having to stop and reflect, Victorian novel-style. Lateef, on the other hand, is a stock character; the spiritually exhausted public servant, who experiences a mid-career crisis of confidence and develops an inappropriate affection for Violet Heller. Somehow it seems like this is supposed to illustrate the novel’s metaphysical import. It just doesn?...
...plane, you sat between some kid with a BlackBerry who wanted to compare the opportunities for junior politicians at Harvard and Brown and a girl wearing six scarves who wanted to tell you about all the high-school theater shows she had revitalized with her post-Foucaultian directing style. You are just a normal person. It comes out in the course of conversation that you don’t even play the violin...