On Jan . 29at 4 p.m., Ms. Rabinova will take her impassioned yet artfully controlled playing to the Second Avenue Firehouse in Bay Shore, opening its 2006 concert season in a program of unaccompanied Bach sonatas and partitas.
The image she so artfully controls is that of a woman incapable of controlling her image, the opposite of the airbrushed movie stars on magazine covers.
Yet for all the carefully controlled murkiness of its plot — and an artfully smudged central performance from Ms. Mamet — "Really Really" is hardly a subtle play.
In scoring the first goal of the final, Suárez had controlled the ball so swiftly with his right foot, then shot so artfully with his left.
They controlled fire, expertly made stone tools, were proficient hunters, lived in complex social groups, buried their dead, and perhaps artfully wore feathers.
They must cope with a deluge of murky new rules, respond to reams of litigation, reorganise mind-boggling capital structures, pacify anti-banker mobs (and anti-banker reporters), and cut compensation while artfully preserving their own perks.Put simply, says the head of one vast and troubled financial institution, risk must be reduced, liquidity increased and costs controlled.
In Hidden, we're taken backstage, through wig, wardrobe and control rooms (all artfully lit).
But in a season of headlines about seemingly unsolvable catastrophes throughout the world, there's undeniable solace in artfully controlled portraits of people spinning out of control.
He has embraced the 21st century's "look at me" celebrity culture to the extent that, with his love of expensive sports cars, designer labels and artfully applied hair gel, he could easily be confused with the Premier League footballers he is paid to control.
And the artfully sheened chill of Fredrik Wenzel's photography highlights a key theme – the clash between our attempts to control nature, whether of landscapes or feelings, and the inevitability with which the world, and our own fallibility, confound and leave us stranded.
