Word: microcosm
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...Damned takes place almost entirely within the mansion of a German industrialist family (the Krupps?) during the years when Hitler was consolidating his power within Germany. Presumably what happens within the confines of the mansion is a microcosm of what is happening in the nation outside-but that's neither important nor worth thinking about. What is important is the incredible richness of the film visually: blood, transvestism, child molestation and all the rest come together to form a lushly orchestrated grand opera of emotional sickness. To be sure, Visconti has indulged himself to the fullest: he takes his sweet...
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?. Taking place during the same year as The Damned (1933). They Shoot Horses also uses its more or less single setting (a depression dance marathon) as a microcosm for a whole society...
...styles, cults, think tanks and Disneylands seem to be spreading everywhere. California's people have created their own atmosphere, like astronauts. Yet it could be that the state is not really so different from the rest of the U.S. as it seems: that it is, in fact, a microcosm of modern American life, with all its problems and promises-only vastly exaggerated...
...whole piece is divided into three "movements" and each one contributes the same meaning in microcosm that the whole aims at. Thus each section begins on an up note, come down in the middle and is then silently and tenderly resolved. This sketch of a musical structure is brilliantly filled out with every minute of listening space taken up by a staggering number of wistful melodies, exquisite guitar work, and, near the end, an amazingly meaningful drum solo by Ringo...
...represent all points of view within each constituency, elections of each group's representatives should not be held along essentially artificial lines such as the Houses, but at large, under a proportional representation (PR) system. With a carefully designed PR system, each committee would be as close to a microcosm of the Faculty and its students as any electoral system could make...