The truth about him – hard to get at in that pre-internet age, and still not entirely illuminated in this film – turned out to be stranger than fiction.
Like Curtis Sittenfeld in her novel "Prep," Antrim dwells on the rituals of boarding-school life — the rigid hierarchies, the code of silence that allows hazing to flourish — but he does not entirely succeed in illuminating the resonance of all this for his characters' interior lives.
The film, though generous with doses of Heifetz in performance, isn't entirely successful at illuminating the man.
It is an entirely different approach to illuminating a museum than the one Zumthor tried in Bregenz and equally impressive.
But she and her father are evidence of a fact that's not entirely shocking, yet still illuminating in the context of America's never-ending gun debate: According to the Pew Research Center, the vast majority of gun owners in America grew up in a house with guns.
The best of those: a scene illuminated entirely by the periodic discharging of a still camera's flash.
There is something called the Galaxy Room, apparently intended for meditation: it is illuminated entirely by ultraviolet lights and has paintings of planets on the walls.
The specimen was illuminated entirely, with the HCC part illuminated reddish-orange homogeneously due to PpIX.
Musically, however, there's no denying he has developed a peculiar genius entirely his own, his songs illuminating the American experience from the gutter up, perfectly set within arrangements that draw on all manner of native styles, from folk to fairground, juke-joint to jazz, country to church, but which all bear the stamp of Waits's unique junkyard-blues sensibility.
But he is more a tour guide than a theorist, and he never entirely succeeds at pulling the category together, or illuminating our own ambivalent relationship to the prospect of becoming invisible.
