Word: strobing
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...else, say his peers, Summers is a ferocious debater, capable of unpacking four or five contradictory theories at the same time. "To have an argument with Larry Summers is a little like being run over by a tank with a Lotus engine and to find the experience educational," says Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution. Such pastimes may come naturally to the first son of two noted economists who was born in New Haven, Conn., in the shadow of Yale, and grew up in Philadelphia not far from the University of Pennsylvania. Not only did he become...
About 100 million people in 232 countries are expected to tune in for Super Bowl XLIII on Feb. 1, and the game's intermission will be as tightly scripted as its opening drives. The Super Bowl halftime show has evolved into a strobe-lit, confetti-strewn spectacle that, depending on your penchant for pageantry, is either a tribute to the Super Bowl's majesty or a monument to a culture of excess...
...Susan certainly is tough, and she's tough in exactly the right way." - Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution, New York Times...
...Mnemonic,” directed by Catherine C. Videt ’09 and produced by Warakorn “Pete” Kulalert ’10, is a contemporary explosion of memory, loss, and uncertainty with its fair share of partial nudity and strobe lights. And although it has an uber-complicated storyline that is often difficult to follow, the interpretive ambiguity it causes is not only a source of confusion, but also one of enjoyment.“Mnemonic” weaves together several related storylines in which all characters are desperately searching for something, using female...
...docuplay, written by Gregory Burke, from interviews with members of the Black Watch regiment--a storied Scottish fighting unit that dates back to the early 1700s. But what could have been dry and didactic is transformed by a host of inventive, kinetic environmental-theater devices: strobe-and-sound effects to simulate the shock of battle, video screens, interludes of traditional Scottish military songs, evocatively choreographed group movement. In one sequence, soldiers silently pass letters from home to one another, reading and weaving about the stage in a ballet of camaraderie and longing. In another, a soldier recites the history...