Word: well-chosen
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...technology is employed both as a medium and as a subject in the exhibition's well-chosen video art. Noteworthy videos include Kristin Lucas' frank, neurotic monologues on life in the technology age, Cable Xcess and Host. Both of Lucas' videos ironically demonstrate the double bind in her masterful use of a technology which she fears somehow controls her. Exhibited on the same monitor, Suicide Box, by a group of artists calling themselves Bureau of Inverse Technology, provides a wry panoptic proposal for installing suicide detection boxes on the Golden Gate Bridge. Ever friendly to death toll tabulators and those...
More impressive than the acting are the attractive set and cleverly used special effects. Behind the central couch, a different framed print hangs for each of the six scenes, each time keyed to the particular mood of the scene. The well-chosen prints ranged from Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup can to a Chagall print to Munch's The Scream. Another striking feature of the set was a medicine chest in which Kitty keeps her "blue wonder drug"--actually blue M&M's--as she nicknames the poison gas pills. Smoke billows out from the eerily lit medicine cabinet...
...there were a few serious problems with the play. The set changes were awkward and took too long because the set of each scene was very different from the one before. Director Stephanie Smith '98 attempted to cover up the length and noise that accompany the set changes with well-chosen music, but this didn't completely mask the problems. Janie's phone messages, which begin each scene, were poor in sound quality. They echoed through Beren Hall and were barely understandable for the audience members straining to hear...
Armchair travelers can look forward to some impressive time trips in the season ahead. An abundance of forthcoming coffee-table books devote lavish pictures and well-chosen words to the surviving splendors of past civilizations. They offer visual nurturing and food for thought...
...illustrate the under-world of Travis's mind and daily life, Scorsese relies on these fine performances by the well-chosen cast, as well as striking camera techniques that might seem bizarre or affected if they didn't match exactly the disturbing paths of Travis's dead-end thoughts...