Mr. Carsen's spellbinding production made Blanche's fear visual, using light, shadows and a large, menacing crowd that pressed toward the characters from the edges of the mostly empty stage (Michael Levine designed the set).

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When we talk about telescopes, we're usually referring to devices that "see" the visual spectrum of light, but astronomers also build telescopes that gather radiation like radio waves and X rays in order to peer deep into outer space.

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The architects turned the pier into a hexagon with faceted sides that catch the light and reduce the apparent visual mass.

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With a sharp eye for telling details, he avoids satire and bathos and creates characters of a rare complexity, which his incisive yet passionate visual style (with its rare attention to light and its absence) realizes empathetically.

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This was quite a feat as the intense light from the star normally obscures the subtle visual details necessary to distinguish a planet.

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Comprised of a surface pattern of triangles-like those in the main theater, but made in this case out of 1, 067 thin aluminum panels, mounted on the support structure with open joints-the light-blue facade looks razor-sharp but creates the impression of a super-light floating skin dematerialized against the sky: another visual reference in the architecture to the infinite thinness of the moving image.

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The setting is light and airy, the seating is comfortable, the visual merchandising is artfully done, and the food is served on real dishware, not in paper wrappers or on plastic plates.

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