Word: foreshadowing
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What also makes this production of "Phantom" particularly delightful is the constant attention to details it demands. During Christine and Meg's haunting duo "Angel of Music," the ghostly ballet dancers practicing in the background delicately foreshadow the dramatic turn the play is about to take. The overjoyed expression radiating from Christine's face throughout her first performance number which, ironically enough, is a depressing song of lost love entitled "Think of Me," only added to the show's appeal...
...decisions are based mainly on what seems right to them. By saying the Gospels are unreliable, the Jesus Seminar members show they are confused. Whether Jesus is God or whether he is not God is irrelevant. The "character" Jesus is detailed in the Bible. Even the Old Testament books foreshadow him. Would not the Bible then be the best evidence of him? To scratch out almost all the Gospels and accept only a fraction of them as possibly true is quite puzzling. BRIAN JANZEN Yarrow, British Columbia...
...chameleon-like adaptation of institutional religion to both secularation and commodification" may foreshadow a world where politics and religion are inseparable, Lawrence said in his lecture, "Global Religion(s): Hope or Hoax of the 20th Century...
...anyone, and politely conduct him to prison, humiliation, death. This Sergei does not know until it is too late. And neither do we. Like him, we are disarmed by the sweetness of this life, so richly detailed by Mikhalkov. The genius of his film lies in his refusal to foreshadow, for it makes the outcome more chilling. This is how evil often comes to us, masked in geniality, on a day when the sun is shining, the music playing. And the way Sergei clings to his ordinariness even as he's carried off, trying to preserve it for his family...
...secret police. What Kotov doesn't learn until it's too late is that Dimitri has come not to steal his wife, but to conduct him to prison, humiliation and death. The genius of director Mikhalkov's film, saysTIME film critic Richard Schickel, is its "refusal to foreshadow, for it makes the outcome more chilling. This is how evil often comes to us, masked in geniality, on a day when the sun is shining...