Word: designators
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...addiction to take in the sheer hydra-headedness of the ceaseless craving for digital stimulation that contemporary technology is creating in us. When it's not coming in through my eyes, digital information is taking over my ears via my beloved silver iPod Mini (one of Apple's orphaned design concepts). A survey conducted by Stanford University last fall found that more than 1 in 8 Americans suffers from some form of Internet addiction. It hardly needs to be said that this problem doesn't wreck lives with the ferocity of alcohol or narcotics, but we have yet to take...
...integrative courses bring together everything they have learned in a synthetic experience,” said Stavins, who is also co-chair of the task force created to design the joint-degree program. “Practical is the important word here...
...Recently the issue got national attention when plans in New York City to include a quilt element in a Central Park Memorial statue of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist, raised the ire of historians, who asked the city reconsider using quilts in the design...
...lost on the Actors’ Shakespeare Project show, which is produced by Sara Stackhouse and runs through April 22. Screams, darkness, ropes, rocks, and a round, ground-level stage greet the audience throughout the play—and that is the set. The simplicity of the stage (designed by Gammons) serves to enhance the symbolism of the few props that the actors have, and the production makes full use of the versatility that is possible with such a stage design. For example, strategically placed ropes represent forced violence between characters. Simple rocks are the actors’ weapons...
...Another particularly noticeable element was the sound design: scene transitions were accompanied by lovely Spanish guitar pieces composed by Daniel Salas. Less lovely was the over-reliance on pre-recorded voices for crowds when having a few actors shout would have been just as effective. The famous “Beware the Ides of March” soothsayer was also a ghostly recorded voice in this production; accompanied by dimmed lights and a pause in the action, the effect was overly portentous...