Word: panoramas
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...centerpiece of "Cross Sections" is Pomegranate Wall, an 8-ft. by 40-ft. curved, backlit transparency containing thousands of interior views of a pomegranate. Seen close up, the cross-sectioned fruit could be microbes; viewed as a whole, the work resembles a panorama of galaxies. When Wagner shows you a pomegranate, you see all of creation, microscopically and macroscopically. And you really see a piece of fruit as you never have before...
...affiliation, Red Ink amounts to one guy, Jordan Crane, who has discovered the gospel of high-end, handcrafted comicbooks. This issue's silk-screened cover wraps completely around and under the nearly two-inch thick contents. When completely unfolded it turns into a 30-inch long pink and yellow panorama. Underneath the cover sits a thick book with a simple, geometrical patterned cover. Pick it up and you discover underneath, nestled in a cutout hollow of thick cardboard, a smaller book! Then, underneath that, another book hidden away! Three books where you expected only...
...passed the Save Fenway display in the window of Cambridge Trust on the way to the T and immediately began to miss the dusty tunnels and cramped seating in the ballpark. Obstructed view seats suddenly seem as if they overlook a scenic panorama. Even the dilapidated sign commemorating Roger Clemens two twenty-strikeout games has some nostalgic value...
...prevent Producing Director Peter Altman of the Huntington Theatre Company from adapting Nobel-prize winning author Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel, The Last Hurrah, into a theatrical event. Speckled with scheming politicos, snooty aristocrats and down-to-earth Irish-American folk, O'Connor's novel, a sweeping panorama of '50s Boston political scene, seemed a perfect recipe for dramatic success, right? Wrong...
...discover that a change of venue hasn't changed his mood. On the 12 cuts of Bad Love, Newman still sees the world as a nasty place full of sad, warped people--and eminently worth singing about. Bad love, indeed. This is his most brutal sheaf of songs, a panorama of desperate men bleating out their lust and hate, a Raymond Carver cosmology set to music...