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scene and is
Going back over this ground and analyzing the composition of forces which have created the present scene is one of the tasks undertaken by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara.
Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.
The scene is etched in sharp detail, the military problems brilliantly explained, and the excitement and importance of the battle made evident.
Today the recreational boating scene is awash with heartening statistics which prove the enormous growth of that sport.
For what I express in my remark is something going on in me at the time, and that of course did not exist until I did come on the scene.
Whosever fault, it is evident that Brumidi intended to fill out the whole frieze with his `` histories '' and come full circle with the scene of the discovery of California gold.
Curiously, this scene is a close parallel to one that Verdi was writing at the same time, the scene between Amonasro and Aida.
We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.
One of the outstanding assets of the present production is the restoration of the St. Basil's scene, usually omitted from performances and rarely included in a published score.
The scene before you is indeed theatrical and often appears in movies about Rome.
One of these is the `` dissolve '', which makes possible a visually smooth transition from scene to scene.
Each scene is shot straight through, as had been the universal custom, from a camera fixed in a single position, but in the outdoor scenes, especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws, Porter's camera position breaks, necessarily, with the camera position standard until then, which had been, roughly, that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play.
The plane of the action in the scene is not parallel with the plane of the film in the camera or on the screen.
`` The world is full of blokes who put their hearts into making the tragic scene.
Even for those who have been observing the political scene a long time, no script from the past is worth very much in gazing into the state's immediate political future.
Aside from a quaint concern with witches and devils which provides the immediate problem in the opening scene, it is a quite normal community.
It is commendable that a regularly scheduled hour is set aside for an introduction to the contemporary musical scene.
Most of what is said about his great men of history has already been said, and what has not is largely irrelevant to the contemporary scene.
But we never know how long a scene is going to take ''.

scene and white
Instead of choosing the traditional natural view as background for an outdoor scene, Manet opts for the iron grating which " boldly stretches across the canvas " The only evidence of the train is its white cloud of steam.
The most important aspect of this was that such shots involved having the sun light the scene from behind, and this approach was extended by using the reflected sunlight from a white surface below the camera to light up the shadow on the actors faces from the front.
Rhett and Scarlett's bedroom scene ( Chapter 54 ) is often read as a rape that was meant to suggest Reconstruction fear of black on white rape in the South.
He describes his passage on ships to the wilderness-to the Company's station, which strikes Marlow as a scene of devastation: " amongst a waste of excavations "-disorganized, machinery parts here and there, now and then explosions of demolition, weakened native black men, that have been demoralized, in chains, literally being worked to death, and strolling behind them a white Company man in a uniform carrying a rifle.
Triage at an accident scene is performed by a paramedic or an emergency physician, using the four-level scale of < span style =" background: green ; color: white "> Can wait </ span >, < span style =" background: yellow ; color: black "> Has to wait </ span >, < span style =" background: red ; color: black "> Cannot wait </ span >, and < span style =" background: black ; color: white "> Lost </ span >.
A farmer and her daughter observed the strange scene of a figure in a bright orange suit with a large white helmet landing near them by parachute.
The neo-Nazi and white power skinhead scene in Switzerland has seen significant growth in the 1990s and 2000s.
This development occurred in parallel with the increasing presence of right-wing populism due to SVP campaigns, and is reflected in the foundation of the Partei National Orientierter Schweizer in 2000, which resulted in an improved organisational structure of the neo-Nazi and white supremacist scene.
But I am particularly grateful to you, as are a number of my friends, both white and colored, for the dignified and decent treatment of Negroes in this scene.
In this scene, the Tsar's soldiers in their white summer tunics march down a seemingly endless flight of steps in a rhythmic, machine-like fashion, firing volleys into a crowd.
He was a white man, one of the first on the scene.
In the first scene of the first episode, " Open Government ", Hacker is shown at the declaration of his constituency result wearing a white rosette, with other candidates sporting the red and blue rosettes associated with the two leading British parties.
This meant that in a black and white scene the U and V signals would be zero and only the Y ' signal would need to be transmitted.
The only clues to his identity are the trademark white cat, similar clothes to his previous onscreen appearances, the dialogue indicating that he and Bond have met before, and the fact that the scene begins with Bond paying his respects to Tracy, often considered by the producers as a means of providing an " immediate continuity link " in the event of a new actor taking the part of Bond ( although this was Roger Moore's fifth appearance as Bond ).
The architectural styles on display, including the white steeples of several churches, are reminiscent of a picture-postcard New England scene.
The film itself shaped history when, on October 7, 1989, a group of African Americans became enraged after drinking and discussing the film, particularly the scene in which a white man beat a young black boy who was praying, and one of the group incited the others to beat up a passing 14-year-old white boy based on his skin color.
Their children for many years played upon the skin of the white bear – from which the lake derives its name, and the maiden and the brave remembered long the fearful scene and rescue that made them one, for Kis-se-me-pa and Ka-go-ga could never forget their fearful encounter with the huge monster that came so near sending them to the happy hunting ground.
Like Blue, the film's cinematography makes heavy use of the title colour: the sky is almost always white, and a scene in Poland is filmed in a white snowscape.
When it wasn't possible to have the bike in the scene, Fonzie would wear a white windbreaker.
A scene of her swimming underwater wearing only a thin, white T-shirt and bikini bottom helped make the film a box office success, leading the producer Peter Guber to say, " That T-shirt made me a rich man ".
When the viewfinder was rotated, the scene was viewed through a deep purple filter similar to those used by cinematographers to judge the black and white contrast of an image.

scene and ballet
In the realm of classical music, semi-spoken music was popular stylized by composer Arnold Schoenberg as Sprechstimme, and famously used in Ernst Toch's 1924 Geographical Fugue for spoken chorus and the final scene in Darius Milhaud's 1915 ballet Les Choéphores.
Some ballet historians also use the word libretto to refer to the 15 – 40 page books which were on sale to 19th century ballet audiences in Paris and contained a very detailed description of the ballet's story, scene by scene.
Dolphy intended to settle in Europe with his fiancée, who was working in the ballet scene in Paris.
Between 1950 and 1970, leotards remained as such in appearance until a style change in the 1970s, with more colorful leotards appearing on the scene, most often in ballet and exercise.
In the first two decades of the century, two rival London theatres, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane presented productions that began seriously with classical stories with elements of opera and ballet, and ended with a comic " night scene ".
The most memorable scene is where a talented Audrey Hepburn dances a jazzy ballet with two backup dancers.
Each one had a cast of over a hundred performers, ballet dancers, acrobats, marionettes and animals, and each was followed by a transformation scene and an energetic harlequinade.
His collection included such masterworks as Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère and a version of his Déjeuner sur l ' Herbe, Renoir's La Loge, landscapes by Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, a ballet scene by Edgar Degas and a group of eight major works by Cézanne.
The moralistic, Biblical subject matter was not an anomaly ; such subjects were popular in the Parisian ballet scene in the late 1920s.
The theme of the ballet was inspired by a scene depicting Pan and Echo that an artist, Charles Conder, had drawn in sanguine on a fan, although the title itself is incidental to the theme.
In this scene from Swan Lake, the corps de ballet is forming a " V " at the front of the stage.
Irony serves the same function in the ballet, for example in the moment when Lord Wilson, the quintessence of Englishness, impassively attempts to sketch the scene of the desert disturbed by the simoom, or when Aspicia, after rising from the sarcophagus, looks into a mirror and is pleased to find herself as pretty as she was a few millennia before.
* The scene in which Spanky and Alfalfa accidentally find themselves performing in a ballet recital was inspired by the plot of the 1937 short Rushin ' Ballet.
The Ballets Russes was a ballet company founded in the 1909 by Sergey Diaghilev, an enormously important figure in the Russian ballet scene.
On Petipa presented a lavish revival of the ballet Le Corsaire for the visiting ballerina Adèle Grantzow, for which he included the celebrated scene Le jardin animé to the music of Léo Delibes.
The ballet included Petipa's celebrated scene known as The Kingdom of the Shades, for which the Ballet Master staged some of his most outstanding choreography.
To this day his choreography for the scene The Kingdom of the Shades remains one of the ultimate challenges for the classical ballerina and danseur, and particularly for the corps de ballet.
Le Perle was truly a ballet à grand spectacle: based on the un-staged danced scene La Pérégrina from Verdi's opera Don Carlos, which was to have been choreographed by Petipa's brother Lucien.
* Excerpt used in the climactic scene of the 1966 motion picture Torn Curtain by Alfred Hitchcock ( staged incongruously as a ballet )
The ballet begins with a scene of worship as creatures of the forest dance before Eros.

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