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...regulatory change provided the backdrop for a scandal in 1985, when then-Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran was discovered to have received more than $150,000 of confidential CIA grants for academic purposes...
...opening number, “Prologue: Into the Woods,” the fairy tales inhabit separate areas downstage, in front of a flat, black backdrop. It is only once they venture into the woods that the characters’ paths begin to cross and the familiar stories become complicated. The stage, too, becomes more elaborate, as the backdrop is lifted to reveal the set, stunningly designed by Beth G. Shields ’10. The trees are stylized to appear textured, ancient, and gnarled, appropriately evoking the atmosphere of a supernatural forest. Reddout, in her direction, makes excellent...
...cold and misty conditions on the Charles River also provided an intense backdrop for the Black and White lightweights, who squared off against No. 2 Stanford after a two-week hiatus from competition...
...party's manifesto in a derelict power station festooned with the word "CHANGE." He has promised Britons "change [they] can believe in" and at the launch reworked another familiar phrase, saying, "Yes we can ... make things better without spending more money." Prime Minister Gordon Brown, meanwhile, chose a rural backdrop for Labour's manifesto unveiling on Monday: a sunlit cornfield, the grain undulating in a virtual breeze. Britain? This looked more like Oklahoma. (See pictures of the U.K. election campaign...
...first project that Hagebölling presented was “Percussive Planet,” a collaboration with musician Martin Grubingers in Bonn that combined live digital animation with the pieces of 35 classical and contemporary composers. Grubinger’s musicians played together on stage against a backdrop of flashing animation created by VJ software, the same kind used in today’s nightclubs and bars. Enormous multi-colored shapes and lines streamed across the screen, all created in real-time by Hagebölling’s students as a visual response to Grubingers?...