As the wise, enigmatic mentor in the influential 1999 sci-fi film The Matrix and its sequels, this character is responsible for opening the protagonist's eyes to the true nature of reality. Adept at martial arts and an inspiring leader of the human resistance against robotic overlords, ...
Boasting one of the great stop-you-in-your-tracks opening lines –“You’ve got a lot of nerve …”– Positively Fourth Street’s sneering excoriation of the Greenwich Village folk scene feels like eavesdropping on a particularly savage argument: so vicious you feel guilty for listening in,...
“As lord warden of this realm, I order you under arrest until we pass the Scottish lines.” After the exchange of prisoners had been effected, Wallace invaded the enemy’s country, and brought rich stores from the barns of Northumberland to the starving people of desolated Scotland. The ...
as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974,' Eugenides writes in the opening lines of his novel. At 14, Calliope Stephanides discovers she has a rare recessive mutation that renders her a pseudo-hermaphrodite. Claiming...
For a lighter option that streamlines the drafting process, get them the Freewriter Traveler. Traveler’s long battery life means your writer’s wordsmithing session won’t be cut short due to a plug-in ultimatum. Whether they’re at a coffee shop or lounging in a park, you...
offscreen animator is a hoot, and you feel like you're being let in on a secret. but as as an adult, it's also lightly terrifying: daffy duck's world may be merely lines on celluloid, but he's real, and he's trapped. the final pullback shows us a ...
American minimalist, expert crafter of clean lines and propulsive melodies Stewart Copeland on Steve Reich Steve Reich could be regarded as the saviour of modern classical music. Somewhere in the middle of the 20th century, the idea took hold among even the best classical composers that music soph...
The team fell apart once Hayes became a hot buttered soul star in his own right, but they were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame together in 2005, three years before Hayes' death. "We had no set pattern and just each came up with melodies, lyrics and hook lines and phrases,"...
As a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, co-founder of Compass Records, and a trailblazer for women in bluegrass, Brown's place among the banjo's all-time greats is well-earned. Her unique style, characterized by intricate melodic lines, precise picking, and lush harmonies, has garner...
The children made prints using brightly colored concentric circles; watercolor paintings with dramatic black lines; and painted to music, using color and sometimes lines, to reflect how the music made them feel. Next up is ephemeral land and nature artist Andy Goldsworthy. Valentine’s Day Your...