For heightened effect, her apartment has abundant touches of chrome: the base of a Florence Knoll table, the base of 1930's mirrored lamp and metal mesh curtains made by Michael Schmidt, a designer and a friend.
Where every detail should be pungently real, one is constantly checked in belief by the sense of calculated and heightened effect, and by the passion of Mr. Maugham for what is odd and "strong".
Almost all journalists, except for a handful of saints, do on occasion sharpen up quotes or slightly shift around times and places to heighten effect.
But then he makes this, to me, very surprising statement: "Almost all journalists, except for a handful of saints, do on occasion sharpen up quotes or slightly shift around times and places to heighten effect.
In Mr. K ler's paintings, familiar images are coupled with technical virtuosity and heightened visual effects.
He heightened this effect with an absurd pileup of sound effects: a leaping female warrior, gun in hand, was surrounded by "FWAP," "SHOOM," "RAAA," and fourteen other sound words, making it seem as if many violent acts were occurring simultaneously.
Furthermore this effect is heightened when both effects are running in parallel.
An abstract video by the director Habib Azar added little, but suggestive lighting heightened dramatic effect.
