Word: modularity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...production is the brainchild of New York City theatrical designers Ken Billington and Kenneth Foy. Its centerpiece is a 50,000-lb. steel-and-Plexiglas modular stage that resembles those used by touring rock bands. The main playing area is flanked by twin lighting towers and live-action video screens, and three additional upstage screens are used for scenic projections. The entire package can be loaded into six tractor trailers, and a state-of-the-art sound system facilitates performances in large outdoor amphitheaters...
...production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, starring Frederica von Stade. Several other opera houses have expressed interest in this new approach, and no doubt similar stages will soon be under construction. But the best thing about Houston's contemporary Carmen is not so much the modular stage, impressive though it is, as what Assaf has done with it. How do you get twentysomethings to fall for opera? The answer is the same now as it was a century ago: make it real...
...that end, Ramos says he tried for "a modular look...
...useful. In the daily battlefield of misunderstandings and impatient busyness, such locutions as Don't go there, In your dreams and What part of no don't you understand? are Nerf-like weaponry: When you're blind with anger or exasperation, you grab the nearest item of modular meanness. Of course, not all coolster coinages are overtly fightin' words. Indeed, some affect affectlessness: Same old, same old; Blah blah blah; Yadda yadda yadda. But given the right nuances, indifference can pack a wallop: Yadda will outsnide blah, for instance but wither before the passive-aggressive champ (and Bob Dole favorite...
Even if these phrases were the nastiest bomb mots on earth, who'd want a civilization without frequent hits of wicked wit? The real reason modular meanness grates isn't the meanness--it's the modularness...