Word: overlaying
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...family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice. Unlike Garp, Hotel aggressively links realism with the tone and symbolism of fable. Imagine a fairy tale dealing explicitly with rape, incest, prostitution and terrorism. Imagine the Brothers Grimm without the dense mythological overlay...
Like the ceremony, the program of music relied heavily on the traditional with a felicitous overlay of the modern. There was everything from Handel to favorite hymns of Charles (Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation) and of Diana (I Vow to Thee, My Country) to a lilting yet regal new anthem by Welsh Composer William Mathias, 46. The ceremony ended with God Save the Queen, newly arranged by Sir David Willcocks, director of the Royal College of Music, who worked the oceanic swell of that great melody into a kind of coda of moral grandeur. As the anthem died, cheers...
...said two weeks ago that Harvard would present a list of objections in written form to the council and planning board hearings on the proposed ordinance. Though he refused to specify exactly what in the draft law pains the University, Harvard officials have complained privately about the strict "institutional overlay" lines drawn around heavy concentrations of University use, outside of which expansion will be most difficult. The lines, the officials fear, will create "psychological barriers" to any growth at all, even into non-residential neighborhoods not governed by the proposed ordinance. But for the time being, Harvard is officially...
...draft sent by the Planning Board leaves intact controversial "institutional overlay" districts that Harvard and MIT officials said they feared might become "psychological barriers" to any expansion...
...basically," city councilor Daivd Sullivan, who helped organize community leaders to oppose deletion of the overlay districts, said yesterday...