Word: abstractedly
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Twelve chipped and scarred chairs are the only furniture. The walls are suggested by mottled backdrops resembling abstract paintings, with jagged window-like spots cut out and covered with wire mesh. A young amateur's play- within-a-play, supposedly taking place in the night air of this retreat in the Russian countryside, turns into a laser show that drags viewers' eyes to the theater ceiling. Naturalistic scenes are interrupted by speeches snarled at the audience, by Scriabin piano works played onstage and by dimly lit, nap- length silences...
...Guys have more abstract art up and girls have more impressionism and realistic stuff," says Andra L. Gordon '89, whose walls feature prints by Degas, Renoir, and Van Gogh...
Return often seems like an experiment in extremes. Although this most obviously involves the nature of the plot itself, it also includes the cinematography. At sporadic points throughout the film, cinematographer Janos Zsombolyai presents us with contained scenes of abstract images. Although the calm, picturesque vignettes of nature eventually become somewhat cloying, Zsombolyai's shots of travel along a highway are innovative and exciting. Familiar lines and lights and shapes speed by blended and confused. Simple visual clues are transformed into the physical sensation of actual movement. Unfortunately, these sections of the film are poorly integrated into the film...
...there's no way to escape a simple conclusion: Advocates of "free speech" protection for pornography have been reduced to championing an abstract principle of total freedom in opposition to a perfectly justified and healthy outcry against degradation of individuals and pollution of our society...
...Electrical Engineer Banu Onaral developed a series of programs that generate wave forms on the screen and manipulate them according to the basic rules of signal processing. "These are very theoretical subjects that require some brain gymnastics to be understood," says Onaral. "The computer can help students visualize these abstract concepts...