Word: designer
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...fusillade. "Washed Up on Broadway," and "Run for the Lifeboats," ran the New York tabloid headlines. The Times' Ben Brantley, the Scar of the grump brigade, said he "loathed" the whole wretched thing, including even the one aspect of Disney shows that usually wins a grudging cheer, its scenic design. "The whole enterprise," the Times critic sniffed, "is soaked in that sparkly garishness that only a very young child - or possibly a tackiness-worshiping drag queen - might find pretty...
That sort of thing makes me wonder whether the critics are actually sitting in the same theater I am. In fact, the show is notably lacking in sparkles, and garish is just about the last word I would use to describe the subtle and airy visual design. A gorgeous color palette of pastel blues, oranges and pinks. Translucent, lighter-than-air panels, billowing plastic waves, scepter-like deep-sea sculptures, which manage to convey not just one undersea world but a host of neighborhoods within that world. Costumes that manage to be both lush and witty - the exaggerated, bunched-crinoline...
...procrastination prompted much discussion among heart doctors and on Capitol Hill: At the end of 2007, the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the two manufacturers asking for the findings - and noting that the end point of the study specified in the companies' original study design differed suspiciously from that submitted to the government's clinical trials database in October 2007. "We are concerned ... with the apparent manipulation of trial data," the letter read...
...Stefan Behnisch, the architect selected for the project, specializes in environmentally friendly design. The plans call for winter gardens and heat extraction methods to keep the complex’s greenhouse gas emissions capped at 50 percent below the national standard. Glass sky bridges will connect the four buildings in an attempt to aid interdisciplinary collaboration...
...will certainly send a very strong signal, both regionally and nationally, that Harvard is committed to reinvigorating research in the sciences,” said Alex Krieger, an urban design professor who has been involved with Allston planning in the past...