Word: darkness
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It’s easy to look at the empty Loeb Mainstage—a cavernous 556-seat theatre—and see only a bare, dark void. For set designer Grace C. Laubacher ’09, however, the theatre becomes a blank canvas, the medium for her art. From the skeletal, caged streets of London in “Sweeney Todd” to the scientific underworld of “The Space Between,” Laubacher has been set designer and technical director for more than 20 productions on campus.In recognition of her extensive work, Laubacher...
...focus. If you look at music, do we expect all composers to write dirges? The answer surely is no. There are many other emotions and moods which music can deal with or engage with. And similarly with art. With painting one would expect that there are some which are dark and gloomy and threatening and other paintings that are filed with light and optimism...
...bodies. Some readers, though, actually feel disappointed by that and will say these aren't real mysteries. Well, they aren't, and I never would assert that they are. Sometimes I'll go to these mystery conventions, and the real mystery writers don't look like me. They wear dark t-shirts and look really cool...
...There are many translations of those first two lines, and this is not the one Jarmusch provided - but due to my inability to write fast enough in the dark, I'm using that of Wallace Fowlie, an authority on French poetry. Fowlie, who died in 1998, devoted entire semesters of teaching at Duke University to Dante and Proust, which sounds like serious stuff, but he was noted for his fine sense of humor. I have no doubt that, confronted with The Limits of Control, he would have offered a fresh translation, "As I was going down that impassive narrative...
...With its dark wood benches, plush blue carpeting and rich ornamental details, the second-floor courtroom of the U.S. District Court in Paducah, Ky., is half a world away from Iraq's hardscrabble Triangle of Death. But in a trial that opened here on Monday, Steven Green, a former private first class from the 101st Airborne Division, stands accused of crimes committed there, one the worst atrocities believed to have been carried out by U.S. forces during...