After being brutally assaulted in a Melbourne stakeout that went horribly awry, homicide detective Joe Cashin is reassigned, for a period of recuperation, to the sleepy, relatively crime-free oceanside town of Port Monro, where he spends his time mostly brooding on the past, drinking to deal with the residue of the physical and emotional pain from the attack, and going for long walks with his two large black poodles.
Louis plays a lo-fi version of himself, spending his days drifting through New York, brooding, bingeing on ice cream, slumping in wintry playgrounds, like Charlie Brown with a buried temper.
The neighborhood is Spitalfields market, across the road from Christ Church on Fournier Street, the brooding Hawksmoor church where Alexander McQueen once showed us clothes rattling with skeletal bones.
The typical hero is no longer a brooding English aristocrat with a large estate who, on a chance visit to a sick aunt, meets a lovely, lonely, virginal 17-year-old, says Charis Calhoon of the Romance Writers.
New Orleans master mentor Ellis Marsalis played an exploratory, growing meditation on "Winter Wonderland, " anchored by brooding left-hand ostinato chords.
She was normally a vocal participant in departmental meetings, but on this occasion she was silent, and she appeared to be brooding.
So, late on election night, the suits are up in their suites, brooding and trying to look confident, waiting for the Glocca Morra vote to roll in and save them, and Jesse is strutting tall turkey at his campaign headquarters at the racetrack, looking like everyone's nightmare of a brother-in-law, shaking his big fist, yelling, "We shocked the world!"
Among the standouts: a dark, brooding Corinth self-portrait drawing and a charming, light-struck August Macke of an Arab on a donkey.
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More creditably, there is much excellent acting, particularly from Greg Hicks, both as a brooding, Brutus-like Agamemnon, and as a rather sinister, sensuous Priam, who towers over everyone on stilts.
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