Oliveros' musical language, formed over a long lifetime of deep listening, is not the same as anyone else's.
The three husbands are lifelong friends, and it's one of the movie's many strengths that it conjures a deep backstory, a lifetime of experience that makes its influence felt through the febrile foreground of incident.
In the central role of a retired conservative judge in Buffalo, the veteran actor Michael Cristofer gives the play an absorbing center, delivering a prickly, moving performance as a man whose attempt to make amends for a lifetime of spiritual flaws only draws him deeper into conflict with his troubled children.
A deep loss after a lifetime of treasured memories.
It is the ache of having one chance at deep love in a lifetime of shallow loves, and losing it too early.
The protagonist of Hijuelos's sixth novel is a Cuban composer so decorous his cross is an inability to act on, or even articulate, his deepest passions, accumulating a lifetime of repression and regret.
When the sadness came up in me and the tears began to flow, I realized that Robin was only the trigger that brought to the surface my own deeper sadness; from a lifetime of wounds and betrayals that I had not had the courage to feel in the past.
Such an experience -- often fleeting or unexpected -- can trigger a deep reaction that sets us into a lifetime of love and passion for this music.
And what I fear the most is missing the indescribably deep connection with a child that yields a lifetime of stories.
The Hoffman uses various techniques, from Eastern mysticism to deep meditation, Gestalt, group therapy, visualisation, and allegedly condenses a lifetime of analysis to eight days.
