Word: backgrounders
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...costumes, created and coordinated by Annie Z. Li ’07, excel in their understatement. They unobtrusively serve to accentuate each movement of the dancers. Set designer Julia E. Rozier ’08 also uses simplicity to good effect, using a minimalist background and set to keep the focus on the dancers...
...Doctor/Trouble) provided some comedic moments, including his performance in the check-up scene in which Hester’s anatomy was examined as if she were an automobile in a repair shop. Tragic irony loomed throughout the play and was appropriately mirrored by the unchanging background of the bridge. Set designer, Elizabeth B. Rose ’08, deserves special praise for her arrangement of furniture and makeshift bridge girders, which aptly illustrated the squalid conditions of Hester and her family. “In the Blood” consistently demonstrated how exploitation can take many unexpected forms...
Although Patrick’s background is a testament to his leadership potential, it is the governor-elect’s bold and forward-thinking agenda that sets him apart. The only gubernatorial candidate to oppose cutting state income taxes—an action which would further strain municipalities with already taut budgets and place an unfair tax burden on those with less fluid assets—Patrick has argued instead for redirecting funds to combat inflated housing costs, improve public education, and strengthen public transit across the state...
...that the chatter turned out to have a concrete source: Allen's mother was, in fact, Jewish, though Allen took pains to emphasize he was not raised in the faith. "I still had a ham sandwich for lunch," he boasted on the day he finally confirmed his mother's background. "And my mother made great pork chops...
...doppelgänger. I don’t know for sure that one day Joel will go to jail for Benji’s hipster-killing spree, but I have my suspicions. What I do know is that, while a video consisting of the band performing against a white background is classic, it is also dull unless either the performance or the filming is particularly arresting. Having a lot of tattoos doesn’t cut it on the first count, any more than filming in black and white, occasional close-ups of faces or instruments, or occasionally switching...