The gleaming space employs an impressive Art-Deco optical pattern on the walls and ceiling (deftly designed by architect Anne Pezzoni and set designer Louis Benzoni) and offers a fantastical, almost futuristic setting for sampling Normand's feminine designs.
davestruestory.com, their droll, deftly designed Web site, is spreading the word in cyberspace.
But the whole show is admirably staged by Still and deftly designed by herself and Ti Green.
All are presented in near if not complete darkness, with only hints of lighting (deftly designed by Yi Zhao).
But the production, deftly designed by Stephen Brimson Lewis and using Steven Edis's music to turn Volpone's strange retinue into a domestic cabaret, is endlessly ingenious.
But Godwin's excellent production, deftly designed by Soutra Gilmour, works by acknowledging that inside O'Neill the autobiographical heavyweight was a comic writer struggling to get out.
It's a painful subject but Michael Attenborough's production, deftly designed by Peter McKintosh, makes it aesthetically bearable and Dillon amply fills a giant role.
Butler scored the first 9 points of the second half, with the best example of the Bulldogs' superior coaching coming when Mack came out on the second half's first possession for a deftly designed layup off a set play.
These scenes are all the more stark because the exhibition — deftly designed and planned by Ralph Appelbaum Associates — makes sure that we encounter them only after we have come to know something about Pompeii as a thriving town.
Many great films have survived being burdened by feebly designed title sequences, but deftly designed ones can enliven the weakest of movies, and a well-made picture will be all the more compelling if it is blessed by titles of the quality of those that Bass devised for Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and "North by North West," or Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus" and Martin Scorsese's "Casino".
