ARTS & LEISURE An article on Page 12 this weekend about the HBO documentary "Casting By," which examines the contributions of casting directors, includes a quotation lamenting the fact that for more than 30 years these directors have been "members-at-large" of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but have never had a presence on the Academy's Board of Governors.
And from Brancusi he absorbed direct carving, a sea change from the lost wax casting method by which sculpture had been produced for centuries.
The beautiful 20th century Japanese bronze vase, cast by Hasegawa Yoshinda, which Ben Janssens of London sold at the private viewing for €4,000, and the Tang stone casket priced at €11,000 are as important for the continuing success of the fair as works worth millions of euros.
"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see".
California elections officials have been sifting through ballots cast by mail, which account for more than half of the state's voter registration, and may not have a full handle on how many are left to count until Monday.
For all its similarities to other kinds of corporate malfeasance, the shadow of death cast by OxyContin, which, according to federal government surveys, has been abused by more than 7 million Americans over the past 20 years, places Purdue Pharma in exceptional standing among other serial offenders of corporate America.
We tell stories, we paint pictures with words, we try to cast that spell by which something flows directly from the imagination of the writer into the imagination of the child.
Martha Graham's "Diversion of Angels" received a frisky interpretation by a cast in which the leading couples were Michele Wiles and Carlos Molina, Ms. Tuttle and Isaac Stappas and Yuriko Kajiya and Jesus Pastor.
And certainly the film was aided by the cast, in which every performer seemed to give one of the best performances of his or her career.
By assembling a cast in which there is not one weak link.
Preview on Noel Coward's new play Private Lives which scored such a hit in London, the cast of which was headed by the playwright, and Gertrude Lawrence.
