Word: light
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...increasingly hard to be truly dumbfounded. Everything makes sense when viewed in light of its historical contingencies, as we know, and if such history happens to be the present, all the better. Making sense becomes a labor of modern context, a labor of love. Like people, works of art might suddenly have something to do with the Internet, politics of the body and multi-national corporations. The only real problem with thinking the present historically is that, sooner or later, everything looks...
...Fire" and "The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils" were nicely contrasted by songs representing his mellower side, such as "I Am Hated For Loving," "Now My Heart Is Full" and "I Can Have Both." He even played five songs from his wayward Smiths days, including the blistering red-light burn of "Meat Is Murder" and the soft melancholy of "Half A Person." In fact, the highlight of the night was the show-stopping finale of "Shoplifters Of The World Unite," which nearly brought the roof down with its frenzied crazes of energy...
...most endearing quality about Dearborn's biography is how it illustrates Mailer's colossal ego and his ultimate failure to live up to his own image of himself. The biography could almost paint Mailer in a tragic light, but ultimately he seems too unconcerned, too disconnected from a reality and an America that he himself helped to fashion. Instead, Mailer's life appears comic, with the only constant being his love of shock tactics and always appearing unpredictable. Although he has lived a life full of exciting people and events, I don't necessarily envy Norman Mailer. It seems like...
...lighting was also an integral part of the creativity and uniqueness of the show. It not only helped to achieve and change the mood and atmosphere of the opera but was more often than not also used in creative ways to further the plot. As Shadgett explains, "The opera had a number of 'tough spots' where we either didn't want to or couldn't afford to do things as they were traditionally done...Killing the Queen of the Night by having the light dissolve her shadow was our alternative to the stage direction, 'They sink into the earth.'" Shadgett...
...mind, I hadn't read the plot summary and this was before I knew that legendary director John Frankenheimer (Manchurian Candidate, Ronin) was at the helm. Given all that, wouldn't you agree that it was an honest reaction? Wouldn't you expect Reindeer Games to be a light-hearted story, filled to the brim with good will and holiday cheer...