Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scope of Twilight is far removed from the simplicity of one-person shows of a generation ago, mostly readings at a lectern. Sometimes the performer impersonated the author with costume and makeup, as Hal Holbrook did in evoking Mark Twain. Sometimes an actor merely read passages stirringly, as Eileen Atkins did for Virginia Woolf. Worth is now doing the same for Wharton; she just ended an entrancing off-Broadway run and has upcoming dates in Princeton, New Jersey, and at London's Royal National Theatre. "I am not remotely taking on Wharton's persona," Worth says. "I never...
Ward further explores the relationship between light and man in the next work, The Rev. Robert walker, Skating (1993). However, this time, he expands the scope of the work to involve the viewer--the physical, real human--rather than simply providing a static image of human interaction seen in the first work. The image is projected on a white wall at the entrance to the gallery. By opening the doors and letting in light, we momentarily disrupt the picture. Ivan Gaskell best describes the scenario in the exhibition's catalogue, "[W]e are playing our part as performers as well...
...initial problem is basic. As I scope potential courses for the new semester, the first thing that strikes me when looking at the CUE Guide is the absence of the survey for the course I am thinking about taking. No doubt, everyone who takes a seminar or tutorial experiences this same problem...
...symbols and their signifieds matter to us and others, and hours after the brief meeting, Clinton was excoriated by the imams and their political bedfellows in Iran and other Islamic states. Certainly not all Muslims participated, but in scope and intensity enough to help finely attune our moral compasses once again...
Officials of several Ivy schools, including Yale President Richard C. Levin, have suggested possible legislative action to broaden the scope of the original agreement...