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...simple but effective set, too, works toward making concrete the unifying themes of the text: the village's washer-women are provided with a river, via the simple expedient of a roll of blue fabric, making visible the torrent of water that infiltrates areas of the play as a symbol of fertility and female power. Inside Yerma's house, the furniture is sparse--a rocking chair, a table, jugs for water--and the dominating element is the starkest one of all: a doorway, erected against the air, marking the boundary between the house to which Yerma is expected to keep...
Citing statistics which indicate that "90 percent of the brain and 100 percent of the emotional foundation [are] crated in the first three years," Reiner said that the issues of his campaign go "into the core of the fabric of human society...
...expected to hear them this morning. Wriggling out of his sleeping bag in the Spektr science module and drifting into the main module, he saw that Tsibliyev looked positively jaunty. Instead of his usual rumpled jumpsuit, the commander was wearing his stiffer, more formal dress jumpsuit. The fabric no doubt itched, but Tsibliyev was a pilot first, and today he had a piece of flying to do. He wasn't about to underdress for the occasion...
...river, the museum does indeed evoke a vast metal ship, full of compound curves, run aground--a sort of art-ark. "To be at the bend of a working river intersected by a large bridge," Gehry wrote at an early stage of the design, "and connecting the urban fabric of a fairly dense city to the river's edge with a place for modern art is my idea of heaven...
...also had an exquisite sense of nuance. It comes out in his complex prints; his Zen-simple paper objects, Pages and Fuses, from the '70s; and in the shimmering veils of printed translucent fabric of the Hoarfrost series, image floating over image, as in Emerald (Hoarfrost), 1975, with its diver's body vanishing into the deep blue-green...