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...Pillowman” are as arresting and inventive as the portrayal of the characters, and further contribute to the mood of anxiety and fear in the play. Instead of actual books depicting Katurian’s stories, a stack of blank white sheets with cutout silhouettes of children represent the writer’s haunting tales. A note scrawled in blood is bundled as a tightly-wound accordion, so that the words on the folio explode as a red streak when the note is unfurled...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Pillowman' Anything But Fluffy | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

...digital collage of a woman’s face with her eyes removed and her lips infected with syphilis. Below the portrait, there are three rows of new eyes and lips to choose from.   Reminds you of those dress-your-own-cardboard-cutout dolls, except scarier...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Low Down on the Bestiary | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...also fretted over the design, which called for a large circular hole to be cut through the top of the building to relieve the force of strong winds. The feature would too much resemble the rising sun of the Japanese flag, they argued. Architect David Malott concocted a trapezoidal cutout instead, giving the building a striking resemblance to a bottle opener. But "it's dramatic in its own way," he says. And how. Today, that crowning trapezoid is home to (what else?) the world's tallest observation deck. You can drop to a crawl on a glass floor that reveals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shanghai High Life | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...After General Gration told the Washington Post that "cookies" and "gold stars" might be useful in forcing Khartoum to cooperate, a few dozen activists from the group Students Against Genocide sarcastically delivered a large cardboard cutout gold star and smiley face to the front of the Sudan embassy in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darfur Activists Frustrated with Obama's Sudan Policy | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...Garden State Inaugural Gala”). Obama went in and out of several balls, but he stayed at ours the whole time. I tried to leave with him at the end, but to my dismay, New Jersey had other plans for the life-size cardboard cutout...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Window 21 to the World | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

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