Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NOEL Coward's Hay Fever is a very witty, if fluffy, comedy of manners with distinct, offbeat characters. Unfortunately, the actors in the Lowell House production aren't always up to the demands of Coward's script...
...These two approaches--concern with the formal aspect of architecture and design and the social twist of that study--have been seen as very distinct, if not diametrically opposed," Burns says. "I think one can't understand the formal solutions and approach unless one understands the social side too. Studying buildings and formal aspects helps you to understand the social, and one shouldn't look at one without the other...
This issue also marks the introduction of a subtle but distinct change in look, including a bolder use of photography and more graphics. These and other design alterations are the work of Rudolph Hoglund, TIME's art director for eight years, who was assisted by designers Angel Ackemyer and Colleen McCudden. The team set out not to remake the magazine but to fine-tune it visually. "One of the oldest rules in design is that form follows function," says Hoglund. "All our changes are intended to function as tools to provide more information and organize it in a way that...
...novel leaves one with the distinct impression that Allende, who has struggled in all her novels to sort out conflicts between individuals and politics, has failed to resolve this tension...
...entertaining. Holroyd manages to make each successive phase of Shaw's life seem significant of itself, rather than simply as a foretoken of what was to come or as raw material for the plays. Even minor figures often have a Dickensian vividness. Each romantic indiscretion has its own distinct flavor; Holroyd pinpoints which of Shaw's innumerable affairs he believes were consummated, and quotes bawdy letters in proof. Even more precisely evoked are Shaw's nonsexual passions for comrades in causes, from his schoolmate Matthew McNulty to his literary ally William Archer and his Fabian Society partner Sidney Webb...