I went along on Saturday, a little reluctant to leave behind the warmest weather so far this year, but psyched up on hyperbolic notions that this was one of those line-in-the-sand moments wherein the adventurous minority had to stand together against the philistines and the reactionaries, to show solidarity with aesthetic vision and hard-line originality.
I've had a most marvelous time with other games to have taken the basic concept of murder and turned it into more than just a bit-part player in a bigger picture both Bulletstorm and (another Platinum title) MadWorld park any plot-line originality to layer on extravagant ultra-violence until it smothers everything else to become the USP of each production.
The line between originality and pastiche is fine indeed in cookbooks, and what constitutes plagiarism is harder to define than in a poetry book.
In the end, the film "seems so intent on getting toddlers to love it — and no doubt the merchandise that's sure to follow — that such details as an engaging story line and originality seem to have gotten lost in Lovelyloveville".
The lines between originality, plagiarism, cultural critique, and mass-produced art have always been a little blurry, but 2016 could well be the year of the inspired, professional art copier.
"We applied the same criteria and principles that we use to evaluate works of art — line, proportion, design, originality and provenance — to these cars," said Leslie Keno, Sotheby's senior international specialist and a familiar face to fans of the "Antiques Roadshow" program on PBS.
The guys at the Curzon Cinema in Soho will be laying on all sorts of free activities for loners from 7pm on the 15th, with DJs playing "he/she's not good enough for me anyway" songs to perk you up, a Rebound Lounge with a staff counsellor trying to tell you 'it's not you, it's them", and a competition for the best break up line with points for originality, harshness and empathy.
His dances, deftly arranged along conventional Petipa-Balanchine classical lines, reveal no great originality but skillful compositional professionalism.
Among the 266 holders of the papacy to date, the current incumbent is the first to take Francis, a flash of re-baptismal originality in a line of succession in which the Johns reach 23, there have been a dozen men called Pius and 13 took the name Innocent.
In Austin Pendleton's adaptation, with music by Joshua Schmidt and lyrics by Jan Levy Tranen, of George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," every line entertains; the production brims with originality not just in its dialogue but in the strange gentleness of its love triangle.
