There is a story that Ruben was watching his wife Elizabeth frying sausages, when he wondered if he could design a plastic version of the sausage skin to hold a liquid, milk, say, the most basic of foods, the "calm, white, lucid" liquid of the French writer Roland Barthes.
In his large, eerily lucid black-and-white photographs, the thrashing surf appears magically frozen into otherworldly landscapes (Johnson).
But the most interesting discovery of all in photography is the work of the 75-year-old Arnold Odermatt (at Springer & Winckler), who made magically lucid black-and-white documentary photographs of automobile accident scenes in his work for a Swiss police department.
Through speakers, Mr. Lupu's tone high up on the piano is twinkling and celestalike, delightfully candied, but in the hall the effect is softer and whiter, otherworldly yet lucid.
Although three of the five main characters are dead by the finale — a trifecta of torment — only Phèdre dies in front of us: she poisons herself offstage, but still manages to stagger out to give Theseus a white-faced but lucid explanation of her gesture.
In its close-up details of costume, its black and white images of ballet and its lucid and intelligent texts, the book covers subjects that are not discussed in the museum show.
What makes "The Bloody White Baron" so exceptional is Palmer's lucid scholarship, his ability to make perfect sense of the maelstrom of a forgotten war.
Lucid letter followed lucid letter.
