This week, Jason Zinoman, a New York Times freelancer and the author of "Shock Value," a book about horror-movie directors, explores the meaning and purpose of bad reviews.
Mr. Dahl uses the term to describe movies in which the directors explore every conceivable form of stark, dramatic lighting, but fail to generate suspense or involvement with the characters.
The Emerson Quartet and the Chamber Music Society's past and present artistic directors explore the chamber music of Brahms from A to Z, as it were, from the composer's early String Sextet Op. 18, which dates from his 29th year, to the Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115, written only a few years before his death.
The creative directors explored the loss of control that falling represents by gathering their favorite falling scenes from films.
EUGENIE C. COWAN Director Exploring the Metropolis Manhattan.
After obtaining his Ph.D. in June 2008 -- and winning his university's prize for the best dissertation in natural sciences -- Gebauer stayed at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces for 6 months, working with Markus Antonietti, the institute's director, exploring the mode of action of common antiscalants using his quantitative setup.
In Katrina Browne's "Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North," the director explores her New England family's history as slave traders.
Keith Terry, the evening's artistic director, explored the sonic possibilities of the body, and the Slammin All-Body Band, the Oakland group of which he is a member, delivered the most monotonous segment of the night.
If the past two collections have seen the creative director explore the tougher territory of 90s tracksuits and 60s motorcycle chic, spring/summer had her in natural Chloé girl territory: the 70s.
Mr. Berlinger, in contrast, has made a film aiming at journalistic objectivity, a return to the vérité world he and Bruce Sinofsky (his sometime artistic partner and co-director) explored in the 1992 documentary "Brother's Keeper," about a family of hermit brothers, the death of one and the murder trial of another.
