Word: placement
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...consequence, the work remains one of confusion punctuated with moments of humor-the latter derived mainly from product placement. The ghost of Old Hamlet disappears into a "Pepsi One" sign, and the infamous brooding and melancholic speech "To be or not to be" is delivered in a Blockbuster video store in the "Action" section, next to the sign "Go Home Happy." Whether intentionally comic or not, they detract from the play's tension, sucking out any emotional involvement that might otherwise have existed...
...Darwin without niche theory. Never do the rectilinear and exclusionary lines formulate a cohesive composition. All in all, the composition is balanced to the point of fragmentation, making it difficult to view the exhibit as a whole. The only exception to the excess of orthogonality is Haacke's diagonal placement of a framed copy of the First Amendment across the floor of the installation space. Had this object been better tied to Jasper Johns's down-turned flag, an interesting crucifixion motif might have been seen, with the twelve Rubbermaids as disciples, but as such this connection was barely noticeable...
NOVEL ADVERTISING Bill Fitzhugh's book Cross Dressing, out in June, will be the first work of fiction to contain paid product placement (for Seagram liquor). How might famous works have been changed if other authors had come up with this idea...
...Pinning a corsage on a barely constrained chest constitutes the first hurdle of the night. Proposition: primrose placement may seem a pleasing preface to the promenade, presuming the preeminent payoff does not involve a prurient priapism...
...call feng shui (phong schway) a nutty fad, but this Eastern art of furniture placement has been facilitating living room energy flow for over 4,000 years. Here, FM plays Master of Decor and points out feng shui do's and don'ts, stopping two Harvard venues from becoming xiong zai (houses of doom...