The films "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Stand by Me" grew out of tales in "Seasons" of similarly intelligently observed moments of everyday life poised on the brink of horror.
What Ms. Eisenstadt achieves are performances perfectly poised between naturalism and caricature, everyday monsters who are exaggerated enough to be funny but not so far out as to lose credibility.
Portraits of ordinary everyday black women are spotlighted, poised as though they are royalty.
But now that the line is finally blurring between devices for tapping into the Internet and everyday household electronics, Planetweb is poised to cash in.
"With advancements in satellite technology, satellite-based communications is poised to be the next standard in everyday mobile devices," said Jeffrey Epstein, President and Chief Executive Officer of TerreStar.
The 'Industrial Internet' is poised to overhaul the way companies manufacture goods, in turn changing our everyday interactions with products.
Because the company embraced doing both -- in this case, existing and new business models -- it stands poised to deliver the world's first, mass-production electric passenger vehicle for everyday use.
Clearly, nanotechnology is poised to become a major factor in the world's economy and part of our everyday lives in the near future.
So do everyday life and allegory, Expressionism and ornament, historical sources from Bengali folk painting to Marc Chagall and a formal approach that is at once gauche and poised.
