... attachment to water. His repeated insistence that a "real rain " will come and clean up the corruption, his constant driving through the rain at night, suggest that water is something he cannot escape, and that its cleansing powers, its ability to wash away the filth, like his own, is impotent ... in the urban landscape, vertical planes obscure the horizon, and hazy lights that reflect off streets perpetually slick with rain. Scorsese's New York at night montages, from the point-of-view of Travis behind the wheel, are merely expressive shots of real world places in New York. They do ... ...

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... new generation of potential audience members. CHAPTER ONE A Personal Perspective on Generational Homogeneity The first production I ever directed was arguably my most successful. While "Dream" (my adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream") was poorly staged, shabbily designed, and narratively messy, the production achieved something I have yet to achieve again. "Dream" brought in an audience of people in my age group, who ... struck the young adults in the audience as being antithetical to what they had come to expect from the soundtrack to a performance of a Shakespeare play. The lighti...

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... remember the blackout because of the hot sweltering nights most residents had to deal with, along without any lights and air conditioners and T.V sets especially in Westchester, and as the night went on things got a lot more Dangerous. (William Laird Siegel). The New York City Blackout of 1977 was extremely memorable than any other blackouts we have had in the great ... such a cluster mess that it was reported by the New York Times in 1978, that Con Ed could not successfully support the city that never sleeps power efficiently and by night fall the entire Con Edison Electric System shut...

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... position of Henry and the anonymous subject he is looking at. A panning motion, is used to show the audience, through a subjective perspective, that it is night-time, the community have all gone inside for the night and eventually, it shows the mobsters who socialise across the road from Henry's home. An over-the-shoulder shot, revealing that Henry is in fact watching ... ...

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... "I want to know what love is!"," with a syringe full of heroin sticking out of her arm was not something mom and dad wanted their daughter to go see on a Saturday night date with the boy from down the block, and the kids loved it. The New York City art scene magnanimously supported and embraced the punk rock movement because of the ... . "(Savage, 102) The Mercer Arts Center closed permanently on August 3, 1973 at just after 5PM when the entire building collapsed into a heap of rubble. A band was scheduled to play that night, despite eviction notices and a warning from the building inspe...

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... struggle for gay rights. In 1969, at New York's Stonewall Bar, homosexual patrons fought back when Stonewall was raided one night by New York City policemen, who came hoping to arrest gay patrons for engaging in then illegal homosexual acts. Since that night, Stonewall has been revered as an enduring symbol of the fight for gay rights, issues, and conflicts(Leadership U). Gays ... ...

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... " after returning home from New York accomplishes a statement of a pervasive theme and the title of the book (185). Although irrational, Esther creates a wonderful scene of exhilaration and freedom her last night in New York. As a symbolic gesture, Esther displays "[h]er inability to accept any accepted woman's role" (Magill's 1632), and she "fed [her] wardrobe to the ... night wind" (111). Her attempt to discard her pain by throwing away the artificial trappings of the fashion world does not change the way she feels. On the train ride to ... ...

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... Van Tassel, whom was also loved by another man named Brom Bones. The growing rivalry between the two men causes quite a few problems. Ichabod wanders out into the forest one night and is confronted by the ghost of an old Hessian trooper who ends up knocking Ichabod of his horse and possibly killing him. In my opinion, the cause of this ... amorous oglings; while Brom Bones, sorely smitten with jealousy, sat brooding by himself in one corner-. It seemed that Brom Bones had had enough, and Ichabod headed home during the night. Ichabod was then confronted by the fabled ghost of Sleepy Holl...

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... a book titled American Notes for General Circulation in 1842. "Let us go on again, and plunge into the Five Points.We have seen no beggars in the streets by night or day, but of other kinds of strollers plenty. Poverty, wretchedness, and vice are rife enough where we are going now. This is the place-these narrow ways, diverging to ... ...

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... ever heard of [in] any officer above a corporal. " Washington left a small contingent with a few fires burning, and, wrapping the wheels of his gun carriages to muffle them, escaped in the night. Cornwallis dismissed this as his enemy's last, desperate gasp. Washington in turn advanced on Princeton, destroying a bridge that would have allowed Cornwallis to follow him, and attacked the rear guard ... ...

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... -to-face as needed. I then left for my hotel, slept, and started dealing with email immediately upon waking, allowing me to find out what they had worked on during the night and then helping out via email where needed. It wasn't ideal but we made it work. Amicability the willingness of someone to hear the thoughts of another person with good ... ...

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... make up his mind" - Almereyda provides us with a type of immediacy the theatre rarely does. Beginning with a tracking shot from within Hamlet's limousine as it moves through New York at night, the director uses captioning to set up the initial situation within the narrative . As this progression through New York continues, cutting to Hamlet walking across a busy roadway, with an electro ... ...

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... , we see in the last scenes of The Great Gatsby that Wilson, Myrtle's husband believed that Dr T.J Eckleburg's eyes is the ever watching eyes of God. Wilson spent the whole night telling Michaelis about Myrtle's love affair and how he had confronted her and told her that she will never escape the eyes of God. The next morning, Wilson is astonished ... ...

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... an airport, keeping them under severe control. This is where an airport operator's skills and knowledge comes into concern. To be able to handle such a large aircraft flow day and night, it would be impossible to work without reliable computer software and huge databases which will ensure strict and precise delivery of information. Even more important is to have a perfectly functioning ... ...

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... attack on Philadelphia. Had withdrawn from the city. Colonial morale was briefly received by the capture of Trenton, N.J., a brilliantly conceived attack in which Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776 and surprised the predominantly Hessian Garrison. Advancing to Princeton, N.J., he routed the British there on January 3, 1777, but in September and October 1777 he suffered serious reverses in Pennsylvania ... ...

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... programmes in school have been proven to help change attitudes towards drinking and driving - hopefully, the next generation of drivers will think twice before heading for the open road after a night on the town. Only time will tell....

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... . The black and white film makes the skyline even more impressive and imposing than ever by creating an even more striking contrast between the distinctive, brightly lit skyline, and the night sky, illuminated by fireworks. The lack of colour also has the advantage of lending the fireworks, whose bright colours can sometimes seem gaudy, an air of class. Wide ranges of ... ...

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