Arnold Newman has a way of illuminating his subjects so that you're impressed not only by what they do but also by what they wear.
When it comes to concocting fevered visions of the future as a way of illuminating the present, Jules Verne got some things right in his time, Aldous Huxley got others, and George Orwell got still others.
By Hendrik Hertzberg When it comes to concocting fevered visions of the future as a way of illuminating the present, Jules Verne got some things right in his time, Aldous Huxley got others, and George Orwell got still others.
The new scholarship said that "context" -- a way of illuminating an object via standards of use and excellence recognized by the people who made it and used it in its own time -- had to be part of the mix.
But be warned that while this production may offer, as the old MGM slogan boasted, "more stars than there are in heaven," only two of those stars, Ms. Streep and Kevin Kline, shed much in the way of illuminating light.
He was explicit about which passages in which films corresponded to specific motifs in his own work — a sorting out, it seemed, or a way of illuminating his understanding of who he is.
The answer came quite easily: here was the celebration and fun I was looking for, here was a way of illuminating women's history in a way that would reach out to a much wider audience of both women and men.
That and Ms. von Otter's musicality and her way of illuminating a song's emotional core help make the dark and introspective "For the Stars Deutschehe Grammophon469 530-2) a moving album where most collaborations between classical and rock musicians are grand failures of judgment and taste.
Whether these Palestinians, once the favored guests of Saddam, will meld better into the fabric and values of American society is not a question explored by the U.N., nor does the U.S. administration appear interested in supplying much in the way of illuminating detail.
