Word: instrumentality
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...bulk of the addition—three new stories above the current administrative wing along Oxford Street—will consist of increased space for the history of science department. The first floor will be a new museum to house their scientific instrument collection, with the second and third floors containing new seminar rooms and office space...
...need for adequate space to house the scientific instrument collection—most of which is being temporarily stored in the basement of the Science Center—along with Harvard University Arts and Sciences Computer Services’ (HASCS) need to expand were the two main factors that originally prompted the FAS physical resources department to investigate the possibility of an addition...
...when the first victim succumbs in a murky alleyway, and all we see is a gleaming silver knife flashing out of the gloom. The shot’s effectiveness lies in the stark contrast between light and dark, inverting a symbol by making a gleaming, bright element an instrument of death. The fact that the action remains largely unseen and the physical effect plays out in our minds only underscores revulsion. However, in most other instances, the brothers resort to heavy-handed imagery. Precariously controlled horses foaming at the mouth and riders driving a carriage bathed in greenish light only...
Come halftime, 50 instrument-wielding band members stumble onto the field, while some guy in the press box mumbles something unintelligible about either Larry Summers or the opposing school’s nickname. In fact, I’ve heard rumors that the person speaking is in fact giving a whole narrative that explains what the band is supposed to be doing...
Some band’s musical identities are entirely bound up in a single, sometimes peripheral, instrument, sound or refrain. This is, in parlance, the gimmick. The gimmick defines the band, makes it unique, is its lifeblood—without the gimmick, the band cannot musically subsist in any recognizable form. Familiar gimmicks include (or, better, should include) Jethro Tull’s flute, Jimi Hendrix’s Arbiter Fuzz Face, The Police’s delay pedal and Peter Frampton’s Talkbox—all part and parcel with their performers’ legacy...