Word: designations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...architecture and atmosphere. That is truest in Animal Kingdom. The backrests of park benches are carved as turtles, eagles, crocodiles. Harambe, the African "village" near the safari ride, is not idealized in Magic Kingdom fashion. It is stylized: worn, with cracked pavements below buildings of a Moorish-Disney design that might be called "mosqueteer." For visitors with an antic mind and a free year or two, Dinoland offers a trove of comic minutiae, including "Chester and Hester's," a garage full of dino-doodads...
...growth of Harlan's personality to fit the huge shoes of her narrative voice is Jones's great accomplishment in The Healing. The stylistic design optimally supports the narrative's broad theme of constructing a personal identity in a world bent on its destruction. At one point, Jones encapsulates this quest for self by retelling the biography of Grandmother Jaboti, Harlan's ancestral precursor in the art of identity building. Jaboti began her life not as a human but as a turtle-woman in a traveling carnival freak show, kept on display between the bearded lady and the unicorn girl...
...amusing in the sameway a reading of Entertainment Magazinemight be. Though the presence of such figures asPaul Simon will certainly (and perhapsintentionally) attach an expiration date to thisnovel, Jones' knack for characterization and herstrong thematic motivation seem to promise anotherwork along the same lines, but with a greatersubtlety of design and characters whosimultaneously artfully forge their own identitiesand manage to operate more within the framework oftruths and values at the same time
...promises to be a veritable confluence of fabulous music, with several student bands on the day's bill. In addition to the bands, there will be several arts and crafts areas--and the folks over at Winthrop House don't mean left-over PTA projects. There will be tattoo design, weaving, face painting and Ukranian egg design, among others fabulous arts activities. This year also marks the revival of fabled jello-wrestling. That may or may not contribute to the arts scene at Thropstock... After this week's fling, look forward to SpringFest next week and Arts First the week...
...British accents perhaps, could be exchanged in any of our parents' living rooms, but because it is part of a play, the dialogue has been objectified, and thus is a mirror in which we see ourselves. But in this case, our reflection has been rearranged and ostensibly given some "design" and "meaning...