Word: layering
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Let’s remember that there is a great sport underneath the exterior layer of the Duke scandal that most people don’t get to see. Let’s remember why it’s such a big story in the first place: because they were lacrosse players...
...downtown Moscow doesn't look like much. Situated on a dead-end mere blocks from the colorful spires of Red Square and the dazzling neon of Tverskaya shopping district, it's just another of the city's many renovation projects surrounded by barbed wire and covered with a thick layer of dust. But beneath rickety scaffolding, the building's towering columns and gilded fixtures tell a different story. Under renovation since 2005, this is the Bolshoi Theater, home of the fabled 231-year-old Bolshoi Ballet Company. From his cozy office in the Bolshoi's labyrinthine headquarters across the square...
...responsible for at least part of the original painting.“What we found were a number of pigments and binding media that were problematic to the attribution of the paintings to Jackson Pollock,” he says.Of course, there was a chance that the original layer of paint had been laid down by Pollock, and that the newer materials had emerged during some kind of conservation effort. But Khandekar emphasizes that he and his team took this possibility into account, and that it does not affect the validity of their conclusion.“The paintings...
...weekly basis because in theater, the first time I’ll see it is in class,” Stern says. “[In creative writing courses] I do a large amount of the analysis and critique on my own, but then there’s another layer of analysis and critique done in the class, not only by me but by the students’ peers as well.” A ROOM WITH A VIEWDespite the intense level of scrutiny that students are held to in the creative track, students who take creative writing courses can?...
...gardener Antonio) skillfully express the difficulty of deceiving each other on the spot, eliciting laughter from the audience. Instead of setting the opera in the 18th century, director Vincent chose to set this production of “Figaro” in the 1960s. Her choice adds a layer of complexity to the work by drawing a parallel between the women’s liberation movements and the importance that the female characters have in cooking up mischief as much as men in the opera. In this update, the characters take the role of politicians, with the Count and Countess...