Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis, though a straightforward piece, is an amazingly densely scored work. It is to the orchestra's credit that it managed a solid performance while maintaining subtle differentiations between foreground and background material...
...this point, the EPC will try to shape the issues and present some background data, while continuing to collect additional information," Wolcowitz says. "Both issues are quite complex, so the EPC is not ready after such a short amount of time to make specific proposals...
...Susana M. Segat and David P. Maher. Segat, a labor organizer and mother of two, has worked on increase principals' budgetary discretion, but her goals are vague. Maher, a three-term committee member, has brought federal dollars into the system and has focused attention on needy schools. But his background is in business, not education...
Walsh and Meier had their disagreements about its display--Walsh liked sober, richly colored walls as a background for the art and insisted on "period room" effects for the furniture, whereas Meier wanted neither. The period decor, which was handled by the New York City architect-decorator Thierry Despont, is a flop. But Meier served the art very well, with a series of generously proportioned, plain, high-ceilinged and top-lighted galleries that don't clamor for attention and do create a feeling of undistracted serenity. They recall the enfilade effects of older museums, but Meier has cunningly provided...
...only through clever filmmaking hanky-pankery such as computer composites of foreground and background that he is made to appear to be in China in Red Corner. Although such steps were not necessary for other actors and crew, the film on the whole has the feel of a fairly good court-room drama that has been uprooted and transplanted to China through the magic of cinema. It is as though someone used computers and special filters to see what Regarding Henry would be like if it took place in the Far East...