Word: actuallity
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...whose work dramatically improved the way the world looks on maps; in Madison, Wis. Mapmakers had long struggled with the problem of representing the round Earth on a flat map. The once widely accepted version by the Flemish Gerardus Mercator, for example, distorted Greenland to appear four times its actual size. In 1963, by focusing on aesthetics--and only later incorporating a mathematical formula--he devised a projection that became the basis for world maps by Rand McNally and many federal agencies...
...debauched son of the dictator of Paraguay. Francisco--"Franco" to his friends and numerous enemies--spirits Ella off to his homeland, a half-savage tropical Eden complete with snakes and crocodiles and cannibals, oh my, where they live in conspicuous luxury until Franco (who is, like Ella, an actual historical figure) leads the country into a disastrous war with Brazil...
...disease-of-the-week exercise like NBC's stultifying Medical Investigation. Every week House and the staff at a New Jersey university hospital treat a different mystery illness. But House is working under protest, forced by his hospital administrator (Lisa Edelstein) to spend a few hours a week seeing actual patients face to face. Hobbled by an excruciating leg condition, he pops Vicodin like Tic Tacs as he suffers hypochondriacs with the sniffles. (He does connect with a bitter office worker trying to milk her insurance before she gets fired; admiring her spite, he orders up an expensive, unnecessary scan...
...response to an audience question as to whether Bloom ever had to follow Dubble, rather than the dancer reacting to the music, the two women demonstrated with an example where Dubble initiated the improvisation. Their bodies were in actual physical contact for most of the piece. Within the tangle of limbs, Dubble would reach out and touch the barrel of Bloom’s saxophone, blocking the sound from coming...
...reward of performance comes through offering the audience something that both entertains and educates. But that’s somewhat mundane. Frankly, I find performance less rewarding than the actual rehearsal process. That might seem somewhat antithetical to the project’s purpose, but it’s in rehearsal that I feel I develop as a singer, actor, person, whatever. And that’s really...