Even if many of the pieces were unable to weave a story as gloriously confounding as the Cremaster Cycle, or left it to others to tell it for them, or withheld any story entirely, it seemed appropriate to have a deity of narrative hovering above the show.
These personal narratives hover between abstraction and representation, with suggestions of fishing-baskets and other staples of Cambodian life alongside allusions to organs like the stomach and lungs — symbols of strength and fragility for Mr. Pich.
He redefined painting as an essentially glyphic, storytelling art, in which spontaneous marks almost always did double duty as signs, symbols, letters and notations, and some sense of a narrative often hovered in the background, even if it was simply about the process of making the painting.
The dam is rarely in the foreground of Hessler's narrative, but it always hovers nearby, an all-too-concrete symbol of the larger transience of life and travel.
The book tries to be a thriller, but though it has its page-turning moments, the spies are too much of a caricature — I suspect intentionally so — for us to take them really seriously; and the narrative as a result hovers rather uneasily between send-up and story.
(Anderson 20110602 Kate Weare Company (Tuesday and Thursday) As part of the Gotham Dance Festival, Kate Weare, a choreographer who creates work that often seems to hover between narrative and abstraction, shows two works: the new "Garden" and the 2009 "Lean-To".
(La Rocco 20110609 Kate Weare Company (Saturday) As part of the Gotham Dance Festival, Kate Weare, a choreographer who creates work that often seems to hover between narrative and abstraction, shows two works: the new "Garden" and the 2009 "Lean-To".
But hovering over the narrative is the question: "How much is it proper for posterity to know?" Maugham wrote bigger novels, but nothing sharper.
Before James does get down to his work, though, there is a shift, about a minute into the scene, from the film's customary (and classic) detached narrative position where the camera hovers next to characters and often shows you what they see to a shot from inside James's helmet looking out, as if you were seeing the world through his eyes.
