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...most elaborate. The first, a brilliant white lace nightgown, only appears in Act I for one minute. With the second and primary dress, an ornate gown of sea green and turquoise, Cho seeks to accentuate the effect of Turandot’s beauty and power upon Calaf and the audience.“She carries the show,” Cho says. “All colors and textures revolve around her.” The other members of the cast have been outfitted with costumes that, while conceptually less powerful than Turandot’s, require no less artistry...
...seemingly standard framework, Hartwig’s precise diction and conceptual views of the world shatter the “classically beautiful” mold, leaving behind poems that startle and unnerve even as they evoke gorgeous images.In “A Mistake,” Hartwig draws upon such broad themes as unrequited dreams while describing a painter’s exhibit: “Huge canvases, on which ideally clean colors fill spaces precisely measured out with elegant geometry. / But in a corner of the room, the tender, delicate drawing of a leaf sketched with a quick masterly...
...Fargo”) is an out-of-work nanny fending off starvation in 1939 London. When an employment agency peevishly refuses to give her a job, Miss Pettigrew snatches up the business card of aspiring actress Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams, “Junebug”). Upon arriving at Delysia’s loft, Miss Pettigrew finds that the actress doesn’t need a nanny, after all, but rather a social secretary to help secure her place in London society. The film follows a hectic day in the life of these two women who have been thrown together...
...perverts the myth of a Mediterranean cult of hallucinogen-gorging island dwellers, casting them as post-apocalyptic street hunters; tension winds tight against a sparse arrangement of drum clatter, guitar reverb, and a xylophone that seems to echo from the bottom of a sewer.“We Call Upon the Author” begins a searing second act with a snarling Cave reciting a list of grievances against an ambivalent God. Yet again, the finger of blame points at Cave, who seems to bring down the song’s misery around himself (with bizarre imagery like...
...after Hillary Clinton's victories over Barack Obama in the Ohio and Texas primaries made the race even tighter, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, a Republican, and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, called upon the party to seat their delegates, saying to do otherwise would silence "the voices of 5,163,271 Americans" who voted in their primaries. In Florida, for instance, 1.75 million Democrats voted, which was the best Democratic turnout in state history. That sentiment has been echoed by Clinton supporter Florida senator Bill Nelson as well as the Clinton campaign itself, which won both crucial swing states...