Word: layers
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...once flashy city has become drab. The grass and trees, marinated for weeks in saltwater, are a dreary gray-brown. Parking lots look like drought-starved lake beds, with cracks in the mud. Within a few hours, anyone working outside is covered in a fine layer of grit. The trees that gave New Orleans such character--the centuries-old live oaks with their grand canopies and graceful lines--are toppled, exposing huge root balls 10 ft. or more in diameter. It's all the more surreal because the Garden District, which survived the flood, is lush and beautiful once again...
...brand-new digital cinema system, a combination of high-tech projector and computer server that could one day kick celluloid out of the projection booth for good. The old mechanism ran 3,600 m of delicate 35-mm film through a series of giant reels. Every screening added another layer of blips and blotches to the film. The new system plays the movie from the server at the touch of a button. And because the film is not on film - it's stored as a digital data file instead of being printed on strips of celluloid - the quality never degrades...
...about the multiplication of identities so that in addition to the strong national identities, you start to construct new ones. FedEx now has direct flights from interior Chinese cities to cities in North America. So start playing that forward. You're allowing a class of people in China to layer on a new identity to their existing identity of Chinese businessmen as member of some kind of international business élite...
...years, as the metal oxidizes and turns green, the leaf-shadow illusion will deepen, drawing the $135 million museum further into the surrounding vegetation even as its metallic diagonals continue to resist being absorbed visually by nature. "We like to talk about paradox," says Herzog, "this thin layer masking things. In some lights this building almost disappears. In a different light it's very sculptural. Then in San Francisco you have the fog, which penetrates the perforations. We like that...
...decided to insert a fictionalized passage into his narrative, he had to judge whether he was “corrupting” the material. Of course, historians and journalists necessarily filter the facts through the sieve of their own judgment. But Wright’s fictionalizations add an added layer of subjectivity which—considering the strength of Wright’s underlying research—proves to be entirely superfluous.Unavoidably, these minor transgressions will force readers to approach “Harvard’s Secret Court” with skepticism—to question which details...