Word: description
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...necessarily a good one, considering the comments I’ve heard in the Leverett House dining hall. “Not another ugly tower,” more than one person has said. The tower is not ugly by any stretch, but it reads as a rather non-descript flat-walled...
...colors of “Groove” were followed by “Conformity” by Bradford Backus ’03 with music by Samuel Barber. As might be expected, all six dancers were dressed in non-descript black and white and moved in a machine-like trance for parts of the piece. The title was well-represented in the dance and the music used in conjunction to the sometimes harsh movement allowed for subjective interpretation by each viewer on the broad range of what the piece’s title might denote...
...Just look at the covers of his three novellas: "Dream Big Dreams," "Queens Blvd.," and the latest, "Tuesday and Thursday" (All Effort Comics; 80pp.; $8.95). The title and price get minimized to a small street sign or upside-down envelope in a panoramic, wrap-around urban landscape of non-descript buildings and streets. Centered on the front are figures that look away from you in distracted or pensive positions. You feel they might catch you staring at them and be annoyed. This unusual, enigmatic design leaves you with more questions than answers, like looking at a snapshot you find...
...card marks the way to the office of Diane L. Rosenfeld, which is marked only by a non-descript door at the end of an aisle of international law books...
Ablow’s subject matter is deceptively simple: collections of open jars and pitchers rest innocuously on top of non-descript tables. The visual confection normally found in still lifes—reflective sparkles on glass, pastel groups of flowers or dew on fruit—is nowhere to be found. Instead objects are simplified into flat shapes. A cup is represented through the simple shape of a cylinder rimmed with shadow, while a drape of fabric becomes little more than a hard-edged line...