With the burden shifting from the jurisdictions to the affected voters to prove discrimination, he was contemplating the work ahead.
Contemplating the work's echt Viennese title, I wondered which of the sections was supposed to be which.
Being black and being gay, and an aesthete as well, launched Ligon — and us, vicariously, as we contemplate the work — into a crossfire of allurements and compunctions.
For the rest of us, it pays to remember that art is about cultural enlightenment: and that flows from contemplating the work, not owning it.
Individual works have "scale" buttons under them that you can click to produce a little gray doppelganger of a real-world fairgoer (in silhouette with arms crossed, as if contemplating the work) to get an idea of its size.
We had to sign a waiver disclaiming rights to sue should injury or death occur during the 24 hours that we were left -- with food but no car -- to contemplate the work from a spartan cabin.
Anyone interested in crossing the ever-narrowing divide between High and Low culture ought to contemplate the work and troubled career of Bernard Krigstein (1919-90), a postwar comic-book illustrator who had the privilege and the misfortune of being an Artist with a capital "A" working in an Art Form that considered itself only a Business.
The movie's tone and substance are set by an early sequence of people on a commuter train — what they're hearing as well as saying on their cell phones, the music they're listening to on their headphones, their interior monologues as they contemplate the work and other activities that await them that day.
That's why it's so bewitching to contemplate the work of hands that have special skills: a teacher communicating in sign language with the deaf, a dentist gently manipulating a drill, a surgeon repairing a shattered finger, a puppeteer bringing a character to life onstage.
