Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...record the movements of a live dancer with digital video cameras. They then used 3-D animation software called Character Studio and 3D Studio Max to map the movements onto their own digital drawings and render the final, ghostlike images. The finished video is projected onto a 28-ft.-tall, meshlike gauze draped in front of the stage. It's reflective enough for the projections to appear vibrant, yet porous enough to leave the live dancers, in their shimmering silver unitards, simultaneously visible to the audience...
...piece, danced to a haunting score by Gavin Bryars performed with synthesizers and stringed instruments, the virtual dancer reappears in various incarnations. Sometimes it's alone, bathed in purple light; at other times it's part of an elaborate ensemble of virtual dancers. It may be 20 ft. tall and amber, or tiny, white and barely there. Its "body" morphs from a hand-drawn squiggle to an array of dots to a mesmerizing blur. When it's visible, you study its interplay with the live dancers. When it vanishes, you wonder when it will return. At times, the audience gasped...
...tell you what it was like to see him. I was in a restaurant last Thursday in Manhattan with a small group of friends who were catching up and arguing politics. Suddenly some invisible shift happened, some peripheral force entered the room--a tall man in sunglasses hobbling toward a back table. He moved briskly, as if he hoped no one would notice...
...Rich kid from the Chicago suburbs. Six feet tall, 135 pounds, chip on his shoulder. Played Dungeons and Dragons as a kid and scrawled "Sic Semper Tyrannis" ?- the stale John Wilkes Booth motto ?- in his high school yearbook. Insisted on going by "August" because Benjamin sounded too Jewish, and told the cops once to call him "Erwin Rommel." Distributed racist and anti-Semitic literature at home and at school, had a girlfriend who does not remember him fondly. Scary? Sure. But he could have been on "Seinfeld," too. As a malcontent, Smith was little more than a caricature ?- until...
Renting appliances may be an option of convenience, especially if you don't want to lug a newly-bought refrigerator or bulky fan back to the homestead once Aug. 15 rolls around. Check out the Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) Campus Store. HSA offers deals for renting tall 30" fans ($15 plus $15 deposit), refrigerators ($55 plus $35 deposit), microfridges ($105 plus $50 deposit), televisions and telephones. The Campus Store also sells lamps ($9 and up), helpful for brightening gloomy Yard accommodations...