Word: mannered
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...spectacular variation on wallpaper. It's an ingenious visual trick, an instantaneous conversion of nature to art by the mere act of framing the scene. Europe in the 18th century saw a vogue among painters and travelers for the Claude glass, an optical device that framed views in the manner of landscape painter Claude Lorrain and lent them something like his subdued tones. The Mediatheque functions in a similar way, but with even simpler means, aestheticizing a bit of nature simply by pointing us toward it just so. In a room where people will examine art on computer screens, reality...
Some 58,000 children crisscross Jefferson County on school buses in much the same manner, with 1 out of 7 of these kids traveling an hour or more each way. What's more, most of their parents--Brown included --are happy with the system. So much to-ing and fro-ing is a result of the school district's generally popular racial guidelines, which aim to keep the percentage of African Americans in any one school from falling below 15% or rising above 50%. The district as a whole is about one-third black...
...leaves the UC in the position of a “pressure group” more than a “government.”The only way for the UC to spark change, then, is to apply pressure to the administration and directly to faculty members in any manner possible. The UC has a critical role not only in “student life” in the vein of the fun czar, but also in “student life” in the sense of our undergraduate education. We expect the candidates for president and vice president...
...also the choreographer, danced the role of the coquettish rose who Singerman spots in the garden and falls for. Singerman and Koch’s dance across the stage in courtship and flirtation was energetic and playful, adding depth to an already solid performance.In the same manner as “Amour piquè par une abeille,” the last cantata “Apollon et Doris” proved accessible to a modern audience. The story of Doris, a sea nymph who resists Apollo’s advances on the grounds that he will not be faithful...
...problems here. First of all, Tom Everett Scott, as the actor, doesn't for one moment convince us he's any manner of Hollywood star: no bearing, no ego, so nervous about his sexual encounter that he might be a middle-aged Neil Simon garment worker having his first fling with a hooker. The playwright (and director, Scott Ellis) want to be both naughty and cool. There's utterly no passion, not to mention plausibility, in this relationship. (Deadpan exchange: "Let's get started." "OK, I'll get aroused...