Word: quilted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most composers don't start working seriously on a score until they see a rough cut of the finished film. In the early stages, says Horner, he may work on themes and instrumentation, but "I can't really start weaving the quilt until the film is locked, since I'm writing to sequences of fixed footage and length. In Braveheart I wanted to help the feeling of the fellow being a hero and a martyr. Most people would have scored his execution differently. I chose to score it softly, with strings and a boys' choir. To me that...
Science is a self-correcting process that thrives by digesting new facts. If our model of the universe is a quilt that requires some reworking, fine. However, some wrongheaded groups will inevitably interpret the unraveling as support for a Bronze Age cosmology...
Described by Phillips as "a weekend of activism" the Washington event will also include the unveiling of the Clothesline Project--a tribute in the spirit of the AIDS Quilt in which, according to NOW, "rows of tee shirts commemorate or memorialize real women who have been battered, raped, assaulted or murdered...
...Square is like a collage or patchwork quilt built in pieces, but each piece is self sufficient and we have to make each piece more successful into itself," Nichols said...
...plot itself is sometimes suspended altogether for moody dance sequences, slide shows of the AIDS quilt and sights of Baltimore. In these interludes the poignancy of The Baltimore Waltz becomes clearest, indicating the links between the satire of the play itself and its deadly serious subtext, AIDS...