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...squinted to get a glimpse of my watch in the dim streetlight, these cautionary words from a Harvard-produced guide to Chile briefly crossed my mind...
...plot of the play by placing these pieces in different contexts. The juxtaposition of such different characters and the parallels made between their situations is effective in creating a microcosm of the college experience.The set is comprised of three partitions; stage right contains a marble stone bench and a streetlight, the center is strung up with holiday lights framing a long table strewn with red Solo cups and near-empty rum bottles, and stage left depicts a dorm room with a bunk bed and a cluttered wooden desk.While condensing the college scene into these basic settings, the partitioning also represents...
...show a thoughtful appreciation for the appealing colors and contrasts created by the mixture of berries, crust, and cream. Wong even creates visual appeal in the remains of a car crash, revealing the dead man’s face through a frame of shattered glass glittering beneath rain and streetlight. Wong also creatively uses motion, both with the camera and the actions on-screen, to set the tone of each scene. A shaky and restless camera introduces the bartender Jeremy (Jude Law). Even as the focus never strays from Jeremy’s face, the camera motion along with sounds...
...Hank knows a lot - the number of men in an infantry, the way a blue car looks green under a yellow streetlight - but he has much to learn about the effect of this war on today's young men. One vet has drowned his wife's dog, and later drowns her in a bathtub. Hank has also hears that Mike had been called Doc by his comrades. Why? Because, on patrol in Iraq, Doc would "stick his hand in some hadji's wound and say, 'Does that hurt?' And the hadji would say yes. Then he'd stick...
...Similarly, it makes little difference that one’s lithe legs are gloriously exposed to the thigh, or that one’s coiffure is the product of four hours’ labor, or that the day’s maquillage is glowing just right under the streetlight, if the same person is evacuating her stomach on the pavement outside a final club—a scene not so uncommon these days. Just as the mutilated bodies of Toscanini’s employees send their own signals, preppy fashion at Harvard so frequently collides with the wearers?...