The Academy often likes to indiscriminately hand its visual-crafts awards as a kind of package deal to a single film; if it's that kind of year, this is the one.
Thora Birch and her mother arrive together as a kind of package, though I am not supposed to write about the mother, Carol, a middle-aged woman with long hair and a face free of the maquillage that usually camouflages the skins of the Beverly Hills animal kingdom.
Together they have created a kind of package tour, with stops at prime culinary destinations like bouillabaisse, soupe de pistou and fritto alla fiorentina, a heaped plate of fried squid, shrimp, zucchini, eggplant, pepper and onion, served with aïoli and spicy tomato sauce.
En route from New York to Fort Lauderdale, the "scripting" takes the form of a kind of holiday-package, ambivalence-is-not-an-option, forced gaiety.
Willis had sent that first shipment of eggs off to the biologists in Florida with a kind of "care package," she said: a few bags of chocolate turtles; a photo book of the crawl and pictures and names of the volunteers who had originally found it; a letter written from the perspective of the hatchlings to their mother ("Well, Mom, the big day is today.
The cocaine was packed in plastic, then wrapped in a layer of latex (from a glove), taped shut with a special kind of packaging tape, and then wrapped in an additional layer of plastic and latex.
It was a new kind of packaging for Ms. Davis, 43, who, though she might protest, seems to be feeling a need to temper her trademark raciness with clothes that are streamlined and authoritative.
Probably the first person in rock to veer from art and self-reliance into a corporate-inspired kind of packaging was Bowie, whose glam revolution turned rock — a fairly straightforward working-class cultural phenomenon — into an upwardly mobile effort obsessed with social hobnobbing and glamour.
Probably the first person in rock to veer from art and self-reliance into a corporate-inspired kind of packaging was Bowie, whose glam revolution turned rock a fairly straightforward working-class cultural phenomenon into an upwardly mobile effort obsessed with social hobnobbing and glamour.
Perhaps we should think of artists like Ms. Brown and her colleagues as presenting a kind of performance art package.
