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  • But somehow the curtain's already had to fall 6 times, Schlamme summarizes the inherent challenge.

    Ashley Wren Collins: Thomas Schlamme Takes Flight With Pan Am Ashley Wren Collins 2011

  • Reduced to a scale of 1:7, the boxes use mirrors and light to project an anamorphic, miniature wonderland, in which our sense of perception is enhanced rather than being diminished: The wires and outlets, chipped wood, dust and stains, the slant of a picture, a crooked frame, a curtain's crease and mirrored reflections astonish us with details that would likely be overlooked if the same room were at eye-level.

    Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011

  • Whereas most people developed their appreciation of ritual by attending religious services, mine grew from watching a theatre's house lights dim as an audience sat up and anticipated the curtain's rise.

    George Heymont: Can't Stop the Music George Heymont 2012

  • But somehow the curtain's already had to fall 6 times, Schlamme summarizes the inherent challenge.

    Ashley Wren Collins: Thomas Schlamme Takes Flight With Pan Am Ashley Wren Collins 2011

  • Reduced to a scale of 1:7, the boxes use mirrors and light to project an anamorphic, miniature wonderland, in which our sense of perception is enhanced rather than being diminished: The wires and outlets, chipped wood, dust and stains, the slant of a picture, a crooked frame, a curtain's crease and mirrored reflections astonish us with details that would likely be overlooked if the same room were at eye-level.

    Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011

  • But somehow the curtain's already had to fall 6 times, Schlamme summarizes the inherent challenge.

    Ashley Wren Collins: Thomas Schlamme Takes Flight With Pan Am Ashley Wren Collins 2011

  • First, upon the curtain's falling on the first act, by two of Lady Hester's acquaintance who descended upon them from a nearby box.

    Gatlinburg 2010

  • The big man called Dougal was ignoring this discussion, peering cautiously into the darkness around the curtain's edge.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Mr. JONATHAN DIENHART (Director, Published Research, Hanley Wood Market Intelligence): It's really only once you kind of take that stimulus away that the curtain's pulled back and it's revealed whether or not you're going to see a drop-off in sales activity.

    Foreclosure Woes Loom As Housing Stimulus Ends 2010

  • Indeed, the iron curtain's collapse owes much to Kingian nonviolence and its methods.

    Janet Kinosian: Q&A With The Late Coretta Scott King 2009

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