Word: blanke
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Shakespeare is so pervasive, so entrenched in Western cultural life, that his plays can sometimes be overzealously adopted by directors looking for a blank slate. Ophelia the flapper! Macbeth the CEO! King Henry IV the Quarterback! Perhaps no playwright is more frequently a victim of hyper-ambitious, conceptual updates...
...unique career as a film composer at a film music lecture and a workshop for composers. Because music scoring is the last production process, it presents particular challenges, he explained at Saturday’s lecture. “Great [composers] are utterly stunned where to begin...a blank canvas with a deadline,” Kraft said. As the final artists to work on the film, composers are tasked with the job of completing the scenes and bringing everything together. “People always assume they know what movie music is all about,” he said...
PostSecret encourages people to anonymously submit postcards containing secrets they have never told anyone. Although it made its global debut on the Internet, Warren said that PostSecret began three years ago as local community art project. Warren, then a small business owner from Germantown, Md., passed out 3000 blank postcards in the Washington, DC area, all with his address on them. “Slowly secrets began finding their way to my mailbox,” Warren said. He posted them at an exhibition soon afterward. Among the first secrets displayed was a postcard stating simply...
...band of Chinese artists has pushed boundaries by depicting the lost souls trying to find their place in a rapidly developing society. Surrounded by the capitalist trappings that China's leaders hope will sate a politically repressed populace - chic clothes, cell phones, fast-food wrappers - these lonely figures wear blank or artificially cheery expressions. "As a child, my classmates and I sang revolutionary songs, and we had to write Mao's expressions over and over," says 43-year-old Zeng Fanzhi, whose portrait of a masked man with a cauterized visage sold for $1.63 million in London last month. "Then...
...used to like asking people what they do when a homeless man or woman begs them for money. I didn’t get a wide range of responses, and in fact most people just told me point-blank that they keep on walking by. But I remember one woman turned the question upside down and asked me to imagine what life would be like if those homeless people couldn’t ask anyone for help. “That,” she said, “is the life of a refugee...