Sentences with phrase «knowing nods to past»

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He decided to hire world - renowned restaurant consultant Michael Whiteman, who heads Baum + Whiteman International Restaurant Consultants (best known for projects like Windows on the World and the Rainbow Room in NYC) to conceive a project that nodded to the hotel's Art Deco past while appealing to modern diners — Butcher & Banker, NYC's first «steak - easy.»

Said to include the influence of John Carpenter and classic practical effects along with knowing nods to frighteners of the past The Void looks to be the perfect way for me to lose a few nights» sleep.

For laughs you can even hide in a cardboard box or in a barrel in a nice nod to the past games while we all quietly accept that such tactics can fool the cyborg enemies you're up against, because, you know, cyborgs are stupid.

Normally I wouldn't have a problem with this as it is a nice nod to the play style of games past, but it drove me nuts because whenever this happened Murphy would no longer be able to run.

Luc Tuymans is known for bleached evocations of the degradations of history and viral image transmission which — like Lucas's work with its nods to Duchamp, Bellmer and Flavin — still keep a foot in art's past.

The sculptures of César Baldaccini, better known simply as César, often combine allusions to the classical past with playful nods to the ephemeral values of the consumerist present.

Known for her elegant filmic investigations into visual gestalts, voyeurism, and perceptual memory, as well as her creative engagement with cinematic history, Rosalind Nashashibi presents several of her experimental 16 - mm productions from the past four years, including Bachelor Machines Part 2 (2007), which borrows footage and dialogue from Alexander Kluge's 1968 film Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed; and The Prisoner (2008), a nod to Chantal Akerman's 2000 film La Captive.

David Rose, politely, courteously, agreeably shared a cup of coffee with his neighbor, nodding and consenting about how something had to be done about CO2 levels, and then quoted his coffee companion out of context and reversing the sense of his source's words in a way we know he has twice (or more) practiced on our host, and more than once on others in the past too.