Word: overlapping
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...Charlie Kaufman (the real-life writer of the film), who becomes consumed by his assignment to adapt Susan Orlean’s meditative nonfiction novel The Orchid Thief and his own personal eccentricities. Like Kaufman and director Spike Jonze’s previous film Being John Malkovich, several plots overlap and intertwine with surprising dramatic twists, creating a frustrating, complex film that is infinitely insightful and weirdly moving. Adaptation screens...
Hughes has a very doable task in front of her. Jessica Ruddock, the junior goalie, points out that figure skaters take power skating lessons for hours, and that a number of hockey players—herself included—learned to skate from figure skaters. The overlap is there...
...folklore and mythology, Braxton-Brooks is putting the finishing touches on her performance thesis. “Basically it’s a show that unfolds on itself in a weave of dance, song and theater,” she says. “Everything is going to overlap and it’ll be hard to place it in a specific genre.” To assist with her project, Braxton-Brooks traveled to Brazil this past summer to study samba and capoeira—“a martial arts form that is disguised as dance...
...that every community which came down in favor of the local measure was also one which contributed to Question 3’s engineered slam-dunk loss. Question 3’s voting results as broken down by town show that there is, in fact, a very significant overlap in districts which passed Question 4/5/6 and towns which did not pass Question 3, often with similarly wide margins. The lesson is as blatant as it is worrisome: in all likelihood, voters in many communities read Question 3, were convinced by its subjective presentation to check...
...emerge when reading "Blood Song" with a more poetic sense. The two big themes of Eric Drooker's work have always been the individual vs. the state and nature vs. technology. (He even overlays animals on the UPC code of his books.) In "Blood Song," often these themes will overlap as when the young woman flees the police. The chase transforms into an ecstatic dance amid traffic lights, parking meters and pedestrians. Her skeleton becomes visible through her skin, juxtaposing her corporeal self against the unnatural trapping of a metropolis...