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...half-hour frame. A beacon of innovation and creativity the film is not. And yet, much like its revered progenitors, Gladiator works on such an impressive scale that it is able to overcome its dearth of originality. Ridley Scott has always enjoyed a somewhat undeserved reputation as a visual virtuoso (White Squall? GI Jane?), but this is one project in which his supposed visual prowess is on display full-force. Taking a page from the James Cameron playbook, Scott meticulously recreates the world of ancient Rome, capturing the most minute details from the bustling streets to the massive Coliseum...
...create art perpetually in flux, to move art out of galleries and into unconventional spaces, to infiltrate commercial culture, to provide an alternative to restrictive formalism. An exhibition of Fluxworks, therefore, poses a perplexing curatorial problem. Nonetheless, under the direction of Benjamin Buchloc and Judith Rodenbeck, the List Visual Arts Center at MIT has recently attempted to put together a comprehensive show, called Experiments in the Everyday, of two artists active in Fluxus, Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts. Despite attempts to reconcile such anarchic art with the limitations of a traditional gallery space, the exhibit is unable to unweave...
...Francisco-born Adams, whose love affair with photography began on a vacation trip to Yosemite in 1916 with a Brownie box camera, had a grander goal: to save those glorious landscapes. As early as 1950, he warned against reckless lumbering, overgrazing and pollution. But his most persuasive arguments were visual--pictures that forever showed why such treasures as Yosemite and Yellowstone were worth protecting...
...testosterone during the game. "In the face of competition, levels of testosterone will rise," says Alan Booth, a sociologist at Penn State University. "This prepares the competitor and may help increase the chances for a win. It could be that the rise in testosterone has physical benefits, such as visual acuity and increased strength. But only the winning team continues to show high testosterone after the game...
...materializes as the focus of the story. A multi-faceted character approach as a literary convention was a critical success, because Jeffrey Eugenides could verbally and descriptively acquaint the audience with the characters in novel form; but when utilized in film, a director is left with condensed screen time, visual cues, and limited dialogue to get at exposition and character development...