This 20-minute piece, in seven connected movements, may seem elusive on the surface.
While the tonal difference between the two is obvious ("Follow Your Arrow" is unapologetically carefree, while "I Kissed a Girl" is apologetically carefree), the repercussions of each song are, on the surface, elusive.
That's not how Acaster's themes work: they're more like clues to a puzzle, metaphors for what – deep beneath the show's surface – the elusive Acaster is really talking about.
Again, that can be characterized as an attempt to do some of the legwork for users and surface that elusive 'interesting stuff'.
The direct functional role of ADAM3 and ADAM6 proteins on the sperm surface remains elusive at present.
The exact mechanism by which dissimilatory metal reducing bacteria attach to iron oxide mineral surfaces remains elusive.
That sense of struggle, of nagging doubt below the apparently confident surface, of that elusive attempt to capture the spirit of delight, is there right at the very beginning of the symphony, when the opening note has to wrench itself into being in the strings and woodwinds for a few tortured seconds before it blossoms into the first melody.
(Anthony Tommasini) ★ 'The Old Man Lives in Concrete' (Wednesday and Thursday, through April 28) On its surface, this funny, elusive 2006 work by the iconoclastic opera composer Robert Ashley seems to be about everyday people harboring unsuspected secrets; dig deeper and you realize the subject is actually Mr. Ashley himself, reminiscing.
Taxing Christmas trees Michael, more Anonymous no longer The thirsty road ahead Not so retiring The elusive progressive majority ReprintsNext to surface, a day later, was Karen Kraushaar, the hitherto unnamed employee of the restaurant association who had received a severance payment after complaining of sexual harassment.
Physical measurements of scratch and mar resistance have been conducted, but the ability to link these resistance to other properties of a polymer and to the customer-perceived appearance of a surface has remained elusive.
