Word: particularized
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...Christmas Carol.” From the snowflakes which seem to hover just inches from the viewer’s face to the eerily protruding nose of the unscrupulous Scrooge (Jim Carrey), Zemeckis’ effects add depth to the film without seeming gimmicky. Certain scenes in particular employ 3-D to unique and immersive effect—most notably Scrooge’s many modes of transportation. One of these involves a mobile room with an invisible floor; as the room zooms in and over London, tables and chairs lurching across the invisible expanse, Scrooge and his surroundings establish...
...bare stage is the birthplace of a dancer’s art—a space where emptiness is the presence preceding emergence, the incubator for stories narrated through movement. On a particular Thursday night, seven members of the Harvard Ballet Company mill about the Loeb Mainstage; with a few preparatory jumps, they gauge the pliancy of the marley floor before beginning rehearsal of a piece from the Company’s latest production, “Momentum...
Clearly one of the professor’s favorite spaces, his excitement seems to grow once stepping into the sunlit library lined with walls and wall of books. Mankiw goes over to one shelf in particular. “Over here are all my textbooks in all different languages. This one is Polish. This one here is in Georgian. A bunch of crazy languages,” says Mankiw...
...Still, the Strasbourg court cannot be accused of discriminating against Christianity in particular. In 2005, the human-rights court upheld a then long-standing ban on headscarves in public buildings in Turkey, a law that has since been eased by the current ruling Muslim party. And of course, beyond the halls of its European institutions, the city of Strasbourg is also in the heart of the ever more secularized French Republic, where students are forbidden from wearing headscarves or any other religious symbol in public schools. To U.S. and U.K. sensibilities, this ban continues to seem as strange as crucifixes...
...three low-key "fixers": Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker. While all three may be somewhat bland and anonymous even in their home countries, they appeal to a growing number of E.U. countries - in particular the smaller ones - because they would excel at operating behind the scenes. (Read: "Opposition Grows to Tony Blair's Bid for E.U. President...