From the sea of computers on the convention floor to a center-stage program of officials engaged in issue discussions with ordinary people, the Democratic National Convention is intended to look and feel weightier than the Republicans' feel-good gathering in Philadelphia.
There is the almost overwhelming presence of Andrew Parker-Bowles, unbuttoned but extremely fierce, in the uniform of a brigadier, red stripes blazing, blood beating its tattoo under the skin, the head with its bony and meaty facets looking weightier than a cannonball - a long-delayed riposte, one might suppose, to Manet's Fifer.
In this show, Bauer's work, with its spirited Kandinsky-esque collisions of form and color, actually looks more weighty than Rebay's.
"There's something about having a beautiful book that looks intellectually weighty and yummy," said Ms. Wiles, who recalled that when she was rereading "Anna Karenina" recently, she liked that people could see the cover on the subway.
A rock on display in the same gallery, riddled with perforations, looking as weighty as a cliff and as light as a sponge, might be read the same way.
By Hendrik Hertzberg October 9, 2012 Tomorrow evening, down at N.Y.U., you can catch a free screening of "Electoral Dysfunction," a lighthearted look at a weighty subject.
Tomorrow evening, down at N.Y.U., you can catch a free screening of "Electoral Dysfunction," a lighthearted look at a weighty subject.
Photographers loved to get her to pose in tight shorts, a silk robe or a swimsuit with a come-hither look and a weighty book — a history of Goya or James Joyce's "Ulysses" or Heinrich Heine's poems.
But the outcome was much more a matter of Obama losing than of Romney winning — because it… One further addition to my list of the horrors and wonders (and there are wonders! plenty of them!) of the once and possibly future Republic… Tomorrow evening, down at N.Y.U., you can catch a free screening of "Electoral Dysfunction," a lighthearted look at a weighty subject.
"Six Novels in Woodcuts" collects all of Ward's books, including his best known, the Faustian "Gods' Man," along with "Madman's Drum," "Wild Pilgrimage," "Prelude to a Million Years," "Song Without Words" and "Vertigo," a weighty look at injustice against the jobless workers in the Hooverville on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
