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...pirate ship, usually painted on a backdrop off in the distance. In this production we wanted to highlight Frederic’s complete immersion in pirate life and his sudden removal from it, so we begin with a pirate ship onstage, which is transformed into a rocky beach and a world completely foreign to Frederic as soon as the pirates leave.” With the assistance of a rotating platform spanning the width of the stage, scene changes are easy and allow the audience to see convincing, life-size sets...
World War II veterans lauded Steven Spielberg for his chaotically realistic representation of the storming of Omaha Beach. Fuller was a veteran of that invasion himself, and he strove for something other than purely visual realism. Like Spielberg, he was working to convey the brutality of war but, as Connor explains, “unlike in Saving Private Ryan, it was never an exercise in verisimilitude but rather an exercise in filmmaking.” A master of the overstatement, Fuller’s abrupt humor, drama, and violence serve as a means—not an end?...
...budget directed to an ineffective—and ever-growing—education bureaucracy, and the teachers’ unions it benefits. And, by law, no governor can raise revenue by modernizing the Prop 13-mandated property tax unfairness that leaves Warren Buffett paying a lower rate on his beach house than a janitor does on his apartment...
Last spring Intel commissioned a surfboard shaper in North Devon, England, to design a board with an embedded tablet PC. Why? So Intel could tout its Centrino processor at beach festivals around the globe. Equipped with wi-fi, the Wireless Technology Surfboard enables the surfer to send e-mail, shoot videos (using the built-in webcam) and, yes, surf...
...with hundreds of Easter egg--like surprises for many happy days of hunting. You can get your head shaved at the barber's, pump up your muscles at a gym, grab a bucket of wings at the Clucking Bell drive-through and go watch the sun set over Verona Beach. How much crime you commit along the way is entirely...