Word: scenic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the musical talents of these performers lack the finesse that might have added a scene of professionality to the play, Schwartz's direction and Emily Brodsky and Roger Wong's production provide scenic portrayals and novel adaptations of the original script...
...fine prose provided a rich sense of the Games' atmosphere. Aptly, his most memorable moment happened far from the action: "One night I missed my bus connection and I was reduced to walking to the next village. The scenery, pale blue in the frosted moonlight, was magical, but scenic vistas were not the first thing on the mind of an Indian from Santa Barbara sludging along a dark, deserted road at 2:30 in the morning...
...scenic design of The Seagull is blessedly free of pretension. Set designer Antony McDonald places the first act in a series of wide open spaces, both exterior and interior. This sense of liberty resonates in a scene in which the half-naked Estabrook cavorts in shallow water...
Early on Oct. 6, photographer Davis and I, accompanied by a translator from the Foreign Ministry press center, set off from Hanoi on a seven-hour, 150- mile drive through the scenic karst valleys of Son La province to Phu Yen district. Before the last two-hour leg of the journey, the driver warned that we would not be able to stop until we reached the hamlet of Phu Yen because even a brief halt in daylight might leave us prey to the bandits who operate in the area...
...slithering past the law since the days of Congressman Charles Poston. Known as the "Father of Arizona" for his campaign for territorial status, Poston set a bad example for later generations of politicians when he set out for Washington to claim his congressional seat in 1864 but took a scenic detour -- through Panama -- at a cost to taxpayers...