Word: suddenness
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...ballroom to a garden to a monk’s cell. Apart from the retractable lights, intense strobes frequently frame the walkways or backlight characters, to great visual effect. In contrast to the other technical aspects, the sound design by David Remedios tends to detract from the play. From sudden bursts of industrial music between scenes that are just as suddenly cut off when the lights go back up to unnecessary “tender” music underscoring the falling-in-love scenes, the music distracts from, rather than enhances, the play. This is a minor quibble, though.In updating...
...that fantasy about taming the bad boy, and you can't get any worse than a vampire," says Erika Tsang, a senior editor at Avon Books, which publishes Teresa Medeiros' popular vampire novels. "They have been alive for 600 years. They've experienced everything. Then all of a sudden they meet this great heroine, who basically is a breath of fresh air. Falling in love, trying to find that spark again in their lives--that is a great romantic fantasy." And the biting part? "They do suck blood, but it's a very erotic process...
...Hotel Cristallo's history reads like a rock star's autobiography: there's the sudden success, the fame, the adulation, the troubled times, the seemingly unstoppable decline. And, inevitably, the comeback. Ten years after the Cristallo closed its shutters, the veteran sashayed back onstage, looking more glamorous than ever. That was in 2001, and the luxury five-star hotel in the Italian ski resort of Cortina is still rocking its clientele. "We loved the idea of starting again," says Paola Gualandi, whose entrepreneurial clan now owns the Cristallo. "And Cortina is very popular and upscale?everybody wants to be here...
...Hotel Cristallo's history reads like a rock star's autobiography: there's the sudden success, the fame, the adulation, the troubled times, the seemingly unstoppable decline. And, inevitably, the comeback. Ten years after the Cristallo closed its shutters, the veteran sashayed back onstage, looking more glamorous than ever. That was in 2001, and the luxury five-star hotel in the Italian ski resort of Cortina is still rocking its clientele. "We loved the idea of starting again," says Paola Gualandi, whose entrepreneurial clan now owns the Cristallo. "And Cortina is very popular and upscale - everybody wants to be here...
...first leg of the final. The Canadian tandem led after each of the first two exchanges and Renner was in the midst of an uphill section on her second loop when the pole broke. "I don't even know what happened, I just know that all of a sudden I was kind of flapping with one arm," she said, laughing. "The next thing I knew, there were three racers in front of me. The worst thing I could have done was panic...