Its hubbub — a revolving stage; the shifting panels of a cyclorama onto which William Dudley's sumptuous video locations are projected; the ballroom gavottes and the revolutionary hoopla — camouflages the stasis at the core of the play.
Hildegard Bechtler, as designer, has cleverly devised a slowly revolving box that gives us shifting perspectives.
Guardian writers' predicted position: 10th (sorry, Jets fans) Last season's position: 7th Such is Newcastle's recent history, such has been its off-season of shifting sands and revolving doors, that one wonders if the club's current position in the top six – alphabetically speaking, that is – might prove to be its high water mark this coming season.
Activists have long decried the revolving door through which powerful people shift from Wall Street corner offices to regulatory perches in Washington -- typically to the very agencies tasked with regulating their former employers.
It's the best chance we've had in years to shine a light into the dark chambers of "Queensland Incorporated": the donations, questionable mine approvals and the revolving door of senior staff job-shifting between government and the mining industry.
That architectural instability is reflected in the film by swinging doors and walls, changing colors, shifting transparencies and a constantly revolving point of view, which all challenge our ability to map the whole cognitively.
For shifting heavy three-dimensional settings, a revolving stage was developed in 1896 at the Residenztheater in Munich and was soon widely adopted.
The dynamic between the eager mentor and the reluctant pupil gradually shifts as they rehearse and perform a revolving door of (fictional) World War I melodramas, Rattiganesque drawing-room dramas, medical potboilers and other works, each one more earnestly — and, it is assumed, intentionally — awful than the last.
Detention centers employed a revolving door arrest campaign, and the aim of torture shifted from the extraction of information to merely killing detainees.
Like so many problems in American government, the policy shift may relate to the pernicious corruption of the revolving door.
