Sentences with phrase «play culture between»

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In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

It is here that the three great monotheistic religions lay their claims, that countless cultures have built centuries - old shrines, and where arguably the world's biggest geopolitical conflict, between Israelis and Palestinians, plays out every day.

One is the «man on horseback» theme: While thumbing through Peter Gay's Weimar Culture, with Wagnerian music playing in the background, and between shots from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, I see the parade ground of Nuremberg, with banners flying.

Any and all differences between races can be attributed to socialization and culture, biology plays no role.

He seems to mainly only look for slightly slower, cultured ball playing, tippy tappy style CM's and then just string 5 of them out in the bit between the midfield and striker.

For Levine's latest book is, in fact, a cri de coeur from a clinician on the front lines of the battle between our better natures — parents» deep and true love and concern for their kids — and our culture's worst competitive and materialistic influences, all of which she sees played out, day after day, in her private psychology practice in affluent Marin County, Calif..

In deepening understanding of North Korean studies as an area study, the nexus between culture and language plays a vital role.

Her research, which appears in the journal Technology and Culture, underscores the role scientific cooperation can play in easing tense relations between governments.

Human babies have also been shown to discriminate between different quantities at ages so young that it would seem language and culture couldn't have yet played much of a role.

It's the first matchmaking app to hook deeply into our culture: creating a flirt scene between athletes at the Olympics, importing randiness to Coachella (traffic on Tinder spikes during big festivals) and spawning knockoffs like a Jewish dating app (JSwipe) and the parody video «Kinder» for kids» play dates.

Ari, played by the terrific Alex Dimitriades, is torn between his tradition - bound parents and youth culture, and also between his wish for acceptance and his guilt - shrouded attraction to men.

In an age where inexpensive, high - quality digital cameras have nominally evened the playing field between the big and small screens, Louis CK's show is one of the precious few that has any right being called «cinematic,» unfurling as a series of short films united by their maker's curiosity regarding family, pop culture and the contours of his narrow worldview.

The civil war background plays itself out through the neuroses of these four characters, caught as they are between Igbo and English cultures.

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

Richard Gelfond, chief executive of Imax, the large - format movie exhibitor, which played «Black Panther» in more than 60 countries, championed Disney for delivering «content that is compelling on its face but also bridges the gap between different cultures, and ultimately is a reflection of the shared values of moviegoers all over the world.»

It's a musical culture clash between stone and bronze age, as played on the field of football (or soccer as we Yanks call it), quite wonderfully tag - teamed by Brit composers Harry Gregson - Williams («Shrek») and Tom Howe («Professor Martson and the Wonder Women»).

In an attempt to close the gap that exists between the increasingly important role that foreign countries, cultures, and languages play in world affairs and Americans» lack of international knowledge, the Goldman Sachs Foundation and the Asia Society have established an award for excellence in international education.

Contents of this guide run as follows: * Visual summary of plot * Storyboard resource for students to then recall the plot and key events from memory * Form and structure comprehension questions * Settings questions * Context (students explore key issues raised in the play such as youth stereotypes, gang culture, growing violence in the age of the internet etc) * Symbols and Motifs - lots of information about symbols and motifs in the play, followed by a revision activity * Key Quotes - Students explore key quotes through analysis of their meaning and significance, quotes are broken down chapter by chapter and provide thematic links etc. * Themes - Students make connections between themes, characters and events in the novel * Characterisation - Students have to complete a character profile for all the main characters using the study tasks provided * Key Terminology - Exploring some key terminology and vocabulary that will deepen their understanding of the play as well as impress examiners.

Strawberry Fields is an impossible book to sum up - Lewycka plays with language and the miscommunication between cultures as she bounces her characters from slapstick to sitcom.

Though the gameplay has issues and the balance between single player and co-op is at times troublesome, what the unique insights into another culture that the game has to offer and the charming story told make it more than worth playing through.

I haven't played the Fire Emblem series of games, my interest in Japanese RPGs started and finished with Final Fantasy VII (I may have dabbled with FF VIII too but it left no discernible memories) but I have watched more than my fair share of Anime to appreciate the difference between Japanese and UK (American) culture.

The distinctions between cultures aren't simply cosmetic; each offers a fundamentally different style of play.

A very slick 2D platformer where you can choose between three individual characters (as in, they play completely differently from one another) and play through some nifty slightly Chinese - culture - inspired, but mainly sci - fi stages.

Working somewhere in between high and low culture, he often creates work that plays with kitsch.

His jazz - inspired play between color and plane are anchored by fearless, site - specific subversions of place and time in regards to conceptions of race, class, and culture.

The exhibition will address how written language can be a central question in the relationships between different cultures and civilizations, and how artists across the world play with alphabets, characters, words and phrases.

Startling juxtapositions also exist as the pedestal of 1950's beauty is shifted in a sinister collaboration between beauty and monstrosity in Javier Piñón's Medusa collages, while Quisqueya Henriquez's collages play with the perceived heightened masculinity of Latin cultures by manipulating symbolic male images.

The exhibition brings together a great range of artistic practices and languages (photography, video, painting, sculpture, installation...), cultures, geographic origins, generations and experiences, to establish a tension between extremely different artistic approaches: melancholy of vanity, ironic play with identity, political biography and existential questioning, the body as sculpture, effigy or fragment of its symbolic substitute.

Brooklyn - based artist KAWS straddles the line between fine art and popular culture in his large - scale sculptures and brightly colored paintings, thoughtfully playing with imagery associated with consumer products and global brands.

In this exhibition, Mr. Dob continues Murakami's interest in playing with the signifying conditions of contemporary Japanese culture caught between tradition and a Western cultural postmodernism wrought Read More»

Warhol's Double Elvis does not portray Elvis the hip - shaking musician but rather Elvis the actor playing a role in the 1960 movie Flaming Star, a liberal - themed Western in which Presley plays Pacer Burton, a half - Kiowa youth torn between two cultures.

The culture and atmosphere of Los Angeles has played a significant role in Leavitt's ongoing interest in «the theater of the ordinary» and the play between illusion and reality, nature and artifice that characterizes the city.»

Founded in 1980 as a non-profit venue for photographic practices, TPW is committed to a media - specific but expanded mandate, addressing the vital role that images play in contemporary culture and exploring the exchange between photography, new technologies and time - based media.

It was a monologue (delivered in a rotary telephone costume I designed) exploring a symmetrical rift between high and low culture, inspired in part by a musical comedy about a working class bell hop who exposes a pretentious composer (who stole his girlfriend) as a fraud by revealing that his critically acclaimed avant - garde divertimento is really just a hit - parade song played backwards.

Continuing her interest in the confrontation between nature and culture, the paintings on view explore the pictorial space, where the physicality of painting and the play with architectural elements, in all senses, become the subject of the picture.The exhibition will be on view from Sunday, September 11 through Sunday, October 16, 2011.

In group portraits, the power plays between the represented countries are illustrated through references to sexual scenarios from BDSM culture, with the dominant authority marked with a «D» and the submissive player marked with a «S.» The artist employs queer models of all shapes, sizes, and genders whose anonymous bodies, decidedly distinct from those of the men whose faces they are wearing, peek through holes in their masks and costumes in jarring ways.

There is, for one, the push and pull between nature and culture, as evidenced by images like Play Mountain (2000) where rolling green hills, which at first glance look curiously manicured, are actually manmade vestiges of a landfill.

With his play between abstraction and figuration, and his combination of elements from high and everyday culture, Condo repudiates genre - defined hierarchies within painting.

Through a wide variety of artistic practices and artists (from Claude Cahun to LaToya Ruby Frazier, from Gilbert & George to Cindy Sherman, and from Alighiero Boetti to Maurizio Cattelan) coming from different cultures and backgrounds, generations and experiences, it reflects on the contrast between different approaches: melancholy and vanity, ironic games played with identity and political autobiography, existential rumination and the body as sculpture, effigy or fragment, and its symbolical representation.

Once the lines are drawn between those who are for LLLTs and those against LLLTs, be prepared for a growing culture of lawyer derision and devaluation of the role lawyers play in our legal system by those who zealously support LLLTs and other reforms.

ArtMob is a group of artists, scholars and other stakeholders interested in the intersection between Canadian culture and copyright and intellectual property law, and how it comes into play with the Web... [more]

According to Caroline Ceniza - Levine, career expert with Six Figure Start, most office cultures range between people constantly joking around and playing pranks to an office where no one jokes around.

His collage and photomontage work tries to exert control over the flood of images we are confronted with daily; playing with relationships between scale and perception and disparate pop culture associations.

Depending on your families or the culture that you come from these can play a small or a big part in your decisions and may add extra pressure because you find you are caught between the two families.

National Reconciliation Week, which takes place between 27 May and 3 June, is a time to celebrate Indigenous history and culture in Australia, and explore the role we each play in the journey towards reconciliation.

Here, we examined the association between cultural values of individualism — collectivism and allelic frequency of the serotonin transporter functional polymorphism (5 - HTTLPR) as well as the role this culture — gene association may play in explaining global variability in prevalence of pathogens and affective disorders.

Achieving reconciliation involves raising awareness and knowledge of Indigenous history and culture, changing attitudes that are often based on myths and misunderstandings, and encouraging action where everyone plays their part in building a better relationship between us as fellow Australians.