It inhabits the first person plural, often functioning like the directions in a film script ("We see someone getting out of a taxi") but also showing signs of having its own history ("We never met Yvonne but we see her now") and attitudes ("We're not sure what else we can do").
A less formal counterpart, the Kabuki theatre, has almost as impressive an ancestry as the Nō and continues to be widely performed, with music used to indicate period, place, time, or mood and often functioning by phrase association like the principle of leading motives in Richard Wagner.
One of the outstanding architects of the period, Juan Guas (died c. 1496), a Frenchman trained in Flanders, can be credited with introducing two of the most popular features of Spanish ecclesiastical architectural decoration: the interior facade-tribune that spans the nave at the entrance, often functioning as a choir loft, and the elaborately carved high retablo, or altarpiece.
With venture capital often functioning as an "old-boys" club (where financiers mostly give to people who are within their network — friends, colleagues, college alumni, etc)., most African-American entrepreneurs lack connections to investors who have access to funds.
"Proteins are very complex, often functioning under only a specific set of conditions, which makes multiplexing and parallel analysis difficult," says Chris Hebel, vice president of business development at LC Sciences.
These comments and responses, often functioning like a conversation among readers (who include lay people as well as topic experts), serve as a gauge of public opinion that is immediate, spontaneous and (presumably) honest.
