Word: heightening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...differentiation between the double roles relies largely on the costumes. The convicts are, of course, dressed in the requisite rags, but the officers are dressed a little too lushly--they wear red velvet trimmed with brass, white knee-breeches, white wigs and hats. In their eagerness to heighten the contrast between the status of the convicts and their masters, the designers have overstepped the boundary between verisimilitude and fantasy...
Boston area college students and homeless people will share common ground tonight as part of a "sleepout" at Tuffs University designed to heighten awareness of the plight of the homeless...
Each semester, students at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science develop products to help people with special needs. In years past they have stuffed caterpillars for children with cerebral palsy to heighten their sense of touch. But the school's latest project may represent the ultimate combination of altruism and design: an overcoat for homeless people that can double as a sleeping...
Music, sound and lighting effects add significantly to the desperation of Hamlet's world. Claire van Kampen's score of trumpets, strings, percussion and piano-coordinated with sounds of wind, sea and rain-compliments the mood of accompanying scenes. The thundering chords, lighting and unearthly chanting of "Sanctus Spiritus" heighten the horror of the Ghost scenes. Strains of piano and strings underlying loving scenes between Claudius and Gertrude and later among Laertes, Ophelia and Polonius reveal the fragility of those moments...
...movie Dances With Wolves, Secondine says, probably helped to heighten awareness of Native Americans on campus. The upcoming quincentennial of Columbus's landing in America, he says, will also make Native Americans more visible...