Word: prop
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...School Committee’s financial data, said Benjamin R. Lummis, a lame-duck committee member who was ousted in November’s elections. Nancy Walser, a member of the School Committee who was reelected in November, dragged four large file boxes with her as a prop to represent the amount of paperwork faced by school administrators in an audit. Under Cambridge’s system of government, the School Committee—chaired by the mayor, who is also a city councillor—creates the budget for all public schools, which then goes before the City Council...
...minimalist production by set designer Melissa E. Goldman ’06 is deeply effective. In the close quarters of the Loeb Ex, every lighting cue, prop, and backdrop cannot help but be scrutinized in the context of the play. For the most part, these elements all work. In the last act, densely colored photographs of the cast hang on clotheslines. These pictures confront the audience directly, forcing them to look straight into the eyes and dreams of each character...
...than compensates for in down-home charm: Mrs. Berman puts on like a young June Carter Cash (down to her signature sun dress and teased tresses), a couple of unkempt friends play catch with the Bermans’ dog, and Dave hams it up with a wind-up Halloween prop...
...expensive, it will cost the airlines $9 billion more this year than in 2003. And although planes are full, there are too many seats on offer, and ticket prices are actually too low for most airlines to make money. Bankruptcy has only delayed the pain. Washington has helped prop up failing airlines with government loans or pension relief for the oldest and least-reformed airlines. Oil, predicts Vaughn Cordle, head of the analytical firm AirlineForecasts, "will do to the industry what bankruptcy hasn't been able to--put some airlines out of business once and for all and consolidate many...
Clayton's other prop was his bass, a gift from his parents ("I'll play till I'm bigger than the Beatles!" he promised them), which he handled with similar elan. It became clear after a little time, however, that there were certain limitations to style. The Claytons were dubious when the band started to talk about turning pro. "Quite sensibly," the Edge remembers, "they realized this business is very hard and that Adam is not the world's most gifted musician and what possible chance has he got of making it. My folks probably made the same calculation." "Adam...