Over in the Arsenale a few older names stand out, especially James Turrell, with a magnificent, vision-cleansing colored-light environment, but youth and, for the most part, sculpture hold sway.
Magnificent visions, strong moral voices.
Today's airship designers share a vision: magnificent amounts of trucking going on in the sky — regular convoys of enormous airships carrying timber, coal, wind turbines, prefabricated homes, or an entire summer harvest, puttering gently along at about a hundred miles an hour, ten thousand feet over our heads.
As Jeanne Marie Laskas writes in this week's issue of the magazine, "Today's airship designers share a vision: magnificent amounts of trucking going on in the sky regular convoys of enormous airships carrying timber, coal, wind turbines, prefabricated homes, or an entire summer harvest, puttering gently along at about a hundred miles an hour, ten thousand feet over our heads".
The pond is a vision of magnificent chaos – browns, yellows and greens falling in all directions.
To point out that Berbatov's touch and vision were magnificent is a waste of words but he was brilliant again.
Buzz Aldrin, for instance, described the lunar landscape as a vision of "magnificent desolation," a grand phrase for a bleak truth.
The Leopard, adapted from a novel by a great gay writer, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, is a vision of magnificent extravagance collapsing into chaos, great beauties of both sexes striking attitudes, bowls of excrement and shocking routes to sexual fulfilment, and a whole island daring you to object.
