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Danylo had a virtually physical passion for poetry. He reacted to poetry he loved in the way a lightbulb reacts when connected to electricity. He would repeat favorite lines in that Slavic, declamatory way that makes of words a magically transporting physical experience, an illumination and a kind of intellectual...
But in all honesty, I can't say I wholeheartedly support the idea that the house lights should go down at the beginning of a theatrical production. It's not that I actually prefer productions where the audience is as visible as the actors. I've only been at two...
7 Eyestrain can result from working for long periods without proper lighting. For the Cornell family, natural light comes through a window during the day, and a combination of indirect fluorescent lights and dimmer-controlled direct lighting provides even illumination at night.
People loved the novel because of its tongue-in-cheek, sarcastic candor and because of its simple acknowledgement of a world going mad. It was a wacky satire that sparred with issues of societal conformity and rampant consumerism. The movie takes the consumerism slant and clubs you over the head...
Hollander's argument for why fashion matters is the same argument people sometimes still make about literature; in her excellent Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress (1994), she writes, "The important imaginative function, the spiritually enlarging character of fashion, is often blindly ignored so as to paint fashion...