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...says. Turandot, for example, must maintain a dominant onstage presence alongside numerous guards and attendants in identical uniforms. Cho also stresses that the outfits must at the same time harmonize with the red and gold hues of the set in a way that appeals to the senses of the distant audience.Still, despite the intricate and important process of designing the costumes, Cho emphasizes that it is just one of the many critical elements that bring the opera together. “It’s about looking at the big picture of design rather than obsessing over details...
...strafing the market and shooting villagers. Then just as quickly, the fighters withdrew to the outskirts, cordoning the village and trapping its inhabitants. In the days that followed, they terrorized the villagers. They stole cattle and camels, eating what they needed and sending the rest on long caravans to distant markets for sale. One by one, over grievances large and small, 20 villagers were killed. On donkey and on foot, the besieged inhabitants stole away in the nights, making the arduous trip across the rock-strewn landscape in search of a safer place. "At times like this, a family...
Still there is no denying the good fortune that has helped McCain secure the nomination. Just two months ago, the Arizona Senator was still a distant long shot, operating a bare-bones campaign on a bank loan with a dilapidated staff of mostly unpaid advisors. Then almost everything broke his way: Mike Huckabee won Iowa, crippling the powerhouse campaign of Mitt Romney. Rudy Giuliani abandoned New Hampshire, allowing his moderate supporters to shift to McCain. Fred Thompson stayed in the race until South Carolina, bleeding enough votes away from Huckabee to allow McCain to win that key state. Even Huckabee...
...said. “Harvard has the Coop and the Kennedy School.” Speaking to The Crimson after the speech, Reiss revealed that there was a lot more to these jokes than may have been obvious. “Harvard is the most distant and chilly education system imaginable,” he said. He had dreamed of coming to Harvard since the age of twelve, yet what he found here failed to engage him.“I wasn’t interested in the school, and it wasn’t interested...
...with courtly flirtations and extravagant revelry, “The Other Boleyn Girl” is unexpectedly dark. What is even more surprising is how well the saturated lighting suits the pale, delicate creatures of the glamorous court. The score includes undertones of the whispering, scheming courtiers and the distant, outraged cries of the English public. It deftly builds tension and suspense to the point where it quite sufficiently replaces extraneous dialogue. Intimate interior scenes are spliced with establishing shots that show the sky in fast-forward, the clouds moving rapidly over the castle and its walls, as though...