Word: tooled
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...fact the costumes become a wonderfully effective tool in bolstering the comic elements of the play. When Bunthorne walks on stage with his beret, black turtleneck and absurd purple and black striped knickers or when the Dragoon Guards make their dramatic change in costume from military uniform to aesthete-in-training frocks, the audience can’t help but roar with laughter...
...Gallman, director of education. "This was a logical extension of what we do." The site includes such features as Music Lab, which serenades kids with appropriate sound effects to teach them the basic components of music, from tempo to harmony. Within the lab is the Performalator, an online tool that enables kids to compose and play music. "The great thing is that this is both for someone who has some musical experience--and for someone with no musical background at all," Gallman says...
...might suspect an elusive, scholarly logic is at work here (this is the Times Arts and Leisure section) but the argument only grows stranger. "Other mainstream rock bands are taking similar approaches, succeeding by embracing new or unusual styles," writes Sanneh, citing Incubus, "another D.J.-enhanced band," and Tool, who last fall put on "an impressive show that included lots of odd time signatures and a long interpretive dance interlude...
...First of all, interpretive dance is never okay, and the dudes in Tool, of all people, should not receive encouragement in that field. Second, it's unclear what is new or unusual about DJs, ambient electronic sounds, or odd time signatures. The first two items on that list were fresh in the early '90s, when U2 mixed rock with techno sounds on their "Achtung Baby" album, and The Beastie Boys interspersed DJ scratches and rapping with heavy guitars on their hit song "Sabotage." By the turn of the century, both tricks were de rigeur among hard rock bands...
...incessant chain of increasingly complex visual premises and ideas, Bochner’s perspective series asks the viewer probing questions. Understanding linear one-point and two-point perspective as an invented illusionistic device or artistic tool, one will also observe that this ready-made and prefabricated formulaic system of perspective is unnecessary in photography as the image inherently depicts depth on its own. Nevertheless, Bochner applies the device of perspective to photography as a way of analyzing and looking at the artistic device itself, rather than actually using it. Portraying linear perspective as the image of a black or white...