Word: exterior
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beneath a quaint exterior, Quarryville is desperately trying to hide something...
...scenic design of The Seagull is blessedly free of pretension. Set designer Antony McDonald places the first act in a series of wide open spaces, both exterior and interior. This sense of liberty resonates in a scene in which the half-naked Estabrook cavorts in shallow water...
...wondering about me when I interrupt you all with those dumb answers, know that behind my glib exterior lies a soul in torment and darkness. And please, act with mercy...
...easy and popular course, even -- Lord help us! -- the incidentally-I-have-negotiated- with-Khrushchev bit. Some of the old class resentment and malice toward foes linger too. Doubtless Nixon genuinely believes Boris Yeltsin to be like Khrushchev in concealing a razor-sharp intelligence behind a somewhat oafish exterior. But when he scorns the American "foreign policy elite" for sniffing at Yeltsin because the Russian might not know which fork to use at a state banquet, he is rather obviously settling some old personal scores, and when he calls Mikhail Gorbachev "a Soviet version of Adlai Stevenson," he does...
Amazing -- and not always, at the time, likable. His 1973 addition to Oberlin College's art museum has a checkerboard exterior and a comically oversize Ionic column inside. Outrageous! The molecular-biology lab at Princeton, designed in 1983, has a wild Argyle sheathing of bricks and oddly orientalized archways. Ridiculous...