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...Allison Koturbash has created an extraordinary set design, using 8 television screens as her canvas, to do everything from running the Cybernectromantics program, to representing a telephone, to bombarding us with a series of flashing fluorescent images. John Ambrosone's lighting design compliments this perfectly, adding significantly to the stark and futuristic atmosphere...
...other hand, he refuses her 'seduction,' her attention may be unwanted, but she will have little opportunity to prolong the harassment. Since she is in a lesser position of authority, she has little power to further manipulate him; this is in stark contrast to an employer who, in the absence of sexual harassment guidelines, may continue to harass an employee by threat of dismissal or demotion. In the case of female employee's advances being refused by a male employer, he would be more proper to dismiss her on grounds of inappropriate behavior or violation of corporate policy than...
...discount the importance of science is even more preposterous. Science's project is revealing the truth that is often hidden from out bare perceptions. in stark contrast, postmodernism's project consists in destroying the very concept of objectivity and truth. And for post-modernism to complete its project, science has to be discarded as having any claim on truth and objectivity...
...Gourd," the final movement of Marty Ehrlich's String Quartet (1993). According to Ehrlich, the movement gets its name from a slogan of the Underground Railroad, "follow the drinking gourd." At first, it sounds like a syncopated roundance in uneven time. Much of its inspiration appears drawn from the stark landscapes that Barto'k portrayed in his string music. Soon, the cello enters with a jazz vamp, introducing the genre in which Ehrlich is most at home...
...American dance, Artistic Director Bruce Marks noted: "The message is the movement, with the idea that all movement is dance." Indeed, the trio of works is unified by its defiance of convention. Cunningham's "Breakers" features dancers in sharp and unpredictable poses, arms, legs and torsos working in stark juxtaposition. In "Company B," Taylor evokes the swing era of the 1940s, while poking fun at characteristic swing moves with its frantically shifting pace. Tharp's "In the Upper Room" combines modern, classical, even aerobic dance elements with exhiliarating boldness and energy...