Word: prop
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...seeds for deeper frustration, the Tigers won the Japan Series (once, that is, in 68 years). But otherwise, as with the Cubs of America (Osaka is perennially called Japan's Chicago), their place in the national pageant, and the seasonal order, is as the lovable bumpkin and comic prop. This year, though, not according to plan, the Tigers soared into first place in April and then refused to leave. They trounced the Giants, again and again (and their rivals' woes are compounded by the fact that it's now their star, Hideki Matsui, who is hitting home-runs in America...
...Stage and Auto), reflects the contributions of the Bauhaus and its associate artists to modernity. These works represent the school’s ambition to penetrate and reform every aspect of society. Among the list of Bauhaus artists included is Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, whose sculpture “Light Prop for an Electric State” is presented in-depth. Through December 31. Monday through Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday: 1 to 5 p.m. $6.50, $5 students/seniors, free for Harvard ID holders. Busch-Reisinger Museum, Werner Otto Hall...
These lightning bolts of product stardom have led some manufacturers to push their wares on production and costume designers--outside the channels of paid product placement. "Companies send me all kinds of stuff," says Ritchie Kremer, a Hollywood prop master. Last summer a manufacturer offered Kremer a cool-looking pen, which the company hoped he would place in the hands of George Clooney, the star of Intolerable Cruelty, due in theaters in October. But the prototype didn't work, and the maker didn't have one that did. So Kremer used a pen from his prop stash instead...
...response, funeral directors act more like event planners, keeping prop rooms, offering video services and dropping words like "choreography" and "production quality" into their spiels. The Panciera Memorial Home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., held about 100 nontraditional services last year, compared with just a handful five years ago. Valerie Panciera-Rief, the home's director of aftercare, has imported butterflies to be released at the end of a service, staged a beach party--complete with seashells and margaritas--for a late Jimmy Buffett fan, and regularly covers chapel walls with sheets of white paper on which attendees can record their...
...Arms sales are one of North Korea's few sources of hard currency to prop up its dysfunctional economy. Since the U.S. cut off oil shipments last year in an effort to pressure Kim to abandon his nukes, the North is also desperately short of fuel to keep electrical generators running and its ramshackle manufacturing economy ticking over. Analysts note that Iran has plenty of oil to trade for arms?along with a strong desire to acquire nuclear weapons, according to Bush administration hawks...