Word: woodenness
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...gloved hands. Waterman walks behind the rifleman, who leads the line, and a cadet holding the American flag. She and the other cadets march slowly, trying to keep in step. When they arrived early to practice, they had a hard time marching exactly together. Now, as they cross the wooden dance floor in front of the podium, the beat of their footsteps is audibly regular. In the photos of herself in her room, Waterman is usually hugging a friend, and always flashing her wide, white grin. The photographs taken of her tonight will be different. Her face is serious, almost...
...08.Set Designer B. Britt Caputo ’08, who is a Crimson editor, and Assistant Set/Tunnel Designer Alice N. Lee ’09 deserve praise for their versatile, quirky yet seemingly lived-in set, and for the entrance “tunnel” constructed of wooden flats painted to resemble giant pages of Silverstein’s books, replete with hand-drawn illustrations in Silverstein’s distinctive style. Despite the lack of logical plot connections between scenes, the number of recurring themes and motifs—communicating through printed signs, treasuring things that are typically...
Today the printing process begins with Cavalli's digital camera with which he documents images he likes?flowers, nature, sunsets?before downloading them to the computer. The next stop is the main printing area: two warehouse-size rooms occupied by 10 wooden counters, each the length of a billiard table, that run along one wall. Here the screens will be laid out for printing. Colors are chosen from a line of plastic jugs and are mixed in a special machine. "Before, we mixed by hand, pouring this in and that in. Very trial and error," he admits. "Now we have...
...zebra stripe and, with the help of an employee, places the screen over a table that is stretched tightly with plain white silk. Cavalli checks that the screen is clicked in place on both sides of the table, pours out a thick glob of black paint, grabs a wooden bar and smears the paint to the other side with it. Afterward, he lifts up the screen to show the design. Ten minutes go by, and the process begins again, this time with white paint. "Each different color in a design needs a screen," he explains. "So 16 colors means...
...possible for a major Hollywood studio to make a $50 million movie in which the hero is a terrorist? A terrorist who appears wearing the dynamite waistcoat of a suicide bomber, and who utters the line--from beneath a full-face wooden mask that he never takes off--"Blowing up a building can change the world"? A movie written and produced by the Wachowski brothers, the cyberauteurs who created The Matrix? Starring Natalie Portman, shaved as bald as Demi Moore in G.I. Jane...