The Connecticut funds cover more trapping and lab tests of mosquitoes caught in Fairfield and New Haven counties.
But it critically lacks the (more expensive) trappings of a modern army, including secure communications, air power and aerial intelligence.
The monumental sets are still there, but, as designed by Alberto Cavalcanti and Lazare Meerson, they come with more realistic trappings.
Although Mao's "memorial meetings" remained in form, the country's nouveaux riches began to augment them with the more lavish trappings of traditional ceremonies.
About 400 of them paid to attend the second annual Wikimania conference, an event that showed far more professional trappings than the first.
In bands like Polvo and Trans Am, the instrumental excursions of progressive rock have made an inconspicuous resurgence by using the scruffier, more modest trappings of alternative rock.
The royal wedding will have more modern trappings than the two fictional series, however: it will be live-streamed on the Internet, and the bride will no doubt tweet "Winning, duh!" during the ceremony.
Still, Williamson's involvement might surprise those who know his acclaimed restaurant, Flinty Red, which eschews modern dining's more theatrical trappings: Williamson's priority is food, not performance.
It is the kind of work Mr. Ponthus plays best, and as he played it, you couldn't help wishing he had abandoned the concert's more risible trappings, and the Schumann, and just played a straightforward new-music program.
Decidedly fragile, Mr. Parnell's play has been a perfectly gentle production, replacing the theatrical stylizing of a near-empty stage with the more solid trappings of a small-town environment that still manages, in Douglas W. Schmidt's production designs, to suggest a never-never land of childlike imagination.
