Seen in the context of Columbia's often tense relationship with its Harlem neighbors, including recent battles over its plans to build a new 17-acre campus in West Harlem, the building is a gleaming physical expression of the university's desire to bridge the divide between the insular world of the campus and the community beyond its walls.
Ms. Reyes's Valencienne should have been counted on for comic relief, yet she generally wears two expressions throughout the ballet: a gleaming smile or wide-eyed shock.
The colossal white stone "column of fame," with its golden cupola gleaming above the Kremlin hill, was the definite expression of an era, reflecting the tastes and grandiose political ambitions of the rising Russian state.
Savage, whose real name was Randy Poffo, would strut into the ring to his theme song "Pomp and Circumstance," muscles gleaming and neon spandex shining, growling his signature expression, "Oooh, yeah!" before diving at his opponents, elbows first.
His intention is not to create finished, gleaming, varnished objects, but great stumps or fragments or semi-formed embryological expressions: essays in the incomplete which allude to the impermanence of everything in the physical world.
These majestic, curiously gleaming beasts made out of "rubberized material" with textured faux fur look so realistic they could pass for actual stallions, if only their faces weren't petrified in expressions of sheer terror.
The sole personal touch is a gleaming silver espresso machine, courtesy of the Italian coffee company Lavazza, and even that is more than just an expression of personal taste.
More gleaming white cobblestone.
Gleaming cars fill driveways.
