Grey Gardens

The documentary Grey Gardens, is about a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who live in poverty in the Grey Gardens located in New York. The documentary presents the Beales’ daily routines, illustrating the decaying mansion, hardship, and depressing reality the Beales’ live in. Furthermore, the story unfolds through the constant arguing between both big Edie and little Edie as they secretly reveal their true selves, own stories, struggles, and thoughts about the past and present. The film

Perhaps the most well-known innovators of the direct cinema genre of documentary film are the Maysles brothers, Albert and David Maysles. Together they created what became one of the most revolutionary contributions to direct cinema, Grey Gardens. This documentary film features the daily lives of a mother and her middle aged daughter, both named Edith Beale, who live in squalor despite their numerous recounts of their luxurious past. Through this film, the Maysles brothers went against the aesthetic

Grey Gardens is a superb musical and the incarnation at Bay Street Theatre, running through August 30th, is truly a special one for many reasons. Among them is the fact that the theatre, based in Sag Harbor, is only around 8 miles from the infamous house, so this truly hits home for them. Additionally, you will be grateful you are seeing this show as it has a remarkable cast filled with Broadway veterans. Legendary Tony Winner Betty Buckley and Drama Desk Award winner Rachel York lead the stellar

building in mind (McVitty, 2009). In practical terms, the colors of the walls should match the furniture’s in ways that are inviting and nice to the students. For example, brown chairs would work well with grey tables in a room with grey walls. The walls in such a room should also not be entirely grey. In such a case, a strip of light or pale green in the middle of the wall breaks the monotony of gray color. Some walls should appear darker than others to create a sense of differentiation did. To complement

“Neutral Tones,” a poem written by Thomas Hardy, is composed of four stanzas with each stanza consisting of four lines. The first and fourth line of each stanza rhyme, while the second and third line of each stanza rhyme. Each line is short enough to be spoken with a single breath, and the last line of each stanza is slightly indented. Both the tone and diction throughout the poem is consistently depressing. The theme of “Neutral Tones” is that love is not always what one would expect it to be. The

storage area. Since the closets are added on to the shape of the room, they do not take away from the space. I want my room to be a place that is relaxed and comfy, but also a place where my friends and I can hang out. To complete this goal, I am using a grey color on my walls to create a relaxed feeling. I am making my room feel more grown up with a more neutral look and a bedspread as my accent. 1. Space is the three dimensional space that a designer works with. Different sized areas convey different

Anyone well acquainted with Blackstone Lake, would have noticed that Black Rock Island is not like any of the other 8 islands. Nor are its rocks like the mainland, even just across from it, a mere 30 m to the north. Whereas most the grey rocks around the lake are granite gneisses or the darker mafic rocks with the pinker ones having more feldspar, Black Rock Island is very black as its name reflects. They feel denser as well, and a close inspection, especially on the west or north west side has peculiar

A Sorrowful (and now dead) Woman OR The Good (and now dead) Housewife OR The Life and Death of the World’s Best Mom Gail Godwin’s Sorrowful Woman develops the message that the archetypal role of mother and wife is so constricting and limiting as to force ‘the mother’ character to end her life. The end of the story demonstrates the power of rhetoric, contrast, and detached narration in creating the text’s message. “A Sorrowful Woman” features a superficially simple narration style. “Now the days

“Can we eat turkey for supper?’ the boy asked.” In one line Godwin presents a reader with enough levels of complexity to easily fill an entire essay; why is one of the most prominent characters (and the son of the main character referred to as ‘the boy’? Does his focus on the tuckey emphasize his love of the idea and duties of a mother, as opposed to the actual person? Yet all of these quarries pale in comparison to an analysis of the text preceding this small quote. The end of Godwin’s “A Sorrowful

“In religion // What damned error, but some sober brow // Will bless it, and approve it with a text // Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?” writes William Shakespeare in the Merchant of Venice. Since Christianity’s founding, the religion has often been plagued with corruption and intrigue. Hardy, like Shakespeare, held a jaded view of Christianity in society and was skeptical of its power and morality. In Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy employs biblical allusions, color symbolism, and