Word: highlighted
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...predict how we will spectate in the future can cause terrible cognitive dissonance. The sports fan is not oriented toward the future; he is the retrospective creature par excellence. He travels forward with his eyes glued to the rearview mirror. His preferred modes of spectating are historical--the highlight reel; the classic NFL film with its sonorous, Homeric narration; and, most perfectly, the instant replay, which, of course, instantly historicizes the present...
...creating the individual in the photograph, so that the viewer is led to question, understand and empathize. Shahn's making of New York City during the Great Depression is a historical documentation of not only the physical realities, but also the realities of the soul of humanity. His works highlight the ordinary in a time of extraordinary loss, despair and, dare we say, hope...
...design, it makes up for in raw character. Directly outside, there are four enormous bins of compost named after old tutors. Geibel and Weller walk through their pantry and proudly display the vats of 35 pounds of peanut butter, 15 pounds of tahini, 60 pounds of honey, and the highlight of the tour, the monstrous solid block of raisins...
...highlight of the night was the dramatic maneuvering for the mayorship...
...production design aptly showcases the precarious and frighteningly real world of Miss Julie. Costume designer Clint Ramo's accurate and beautiful 1880s costumes, complete with exaggerated bustles and full livery, highlight the importance of external appearance to class distinction, while set designer Susan Roger's hybrid set is itself perfectly unsettled somewhere between abstraction and reality. The smells of real onstage cooking mingle with a spare room composed of strangely angled linoleum and frighteningly high stacks of porcelain dinner plates...