Word: streaming
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...show, Casella stands behind the 5-ft.-tall Timon model, which he manipulates with rods and wires. Others in the cast wear elaborate headpieces representing the animals they are portraying. Indeed, Taymor's entire production is highly stylized and impressionistic. A rushing waterfall is conveyed simply by a rippling stream of silk. Leaping gazelles are suggested by a Rube Goldberg contraption of wheels and spokes. "The poetry of the theater is that it allows the audience to use its imagination to fill in the blanks," says Taymor. "They become complicit in the theatrical experience...
Over 60 years she created some 2,300 works, an endless stream of flowers, landscapes, crosses and skulls that generated enormous attention and an O'Keeffe industry that rarely flagged. In 1987, a year after her death at age 98, 438,000 people visited her retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. (By comparison, Andrew Wyeth--perhaps postwar America's most cherished artist--drew 558,000 visitors to his retrospective at the National Gallery.) That same year O'Keeffe's Black Hollyhock with Blue Larkspur, 1929, was sold at auction for the artist's record of $1.98 million...
...power the spacecraft needed. That same sun, however, was providing little heat: the temperature at Ares Vallis was a crisp -64[degrees]F. But Pathfinder, built to function in that kind of killing cold, seemed unaffected. "I'm ecstatic," said flight systems manager Brian Muirhead as the stream of healthy signals poured into J.P.L. "This is way beyond our expectations...
Like Hitler, who insisted on a steady stream of musicals from the German studios, Stalin was a big fan of the genre; he saw Alexandrov's Volga, Volga (1938) 100 times. And busy as he was in 1933, supervising the forced starvation of 7 million Ukrainians, Stalin took time out to see The Jolly Fellows. It was his enthusiasm that overruled the censors' original...
...about mandatory jury duty and ubiquitous public opinion polls that show Americans are unhappy with their goernment, their society and their lives. Make no mistake: it is not the endless calls for help that bother me, but rather the fact that they are not matched by an equally bountiful stream of civic duty and a commitment to change--not just complain about--the system...