Too often, the Stirling shortlist favours arts and cultural projects over buildings that perform complex functions or provide routine backdrops to our daily lives.
"Gluckel of Hameln" uses period costumes; Yiddish and English song; instruments like the trumpet, shawm, drum and toy piano; puppets; an occasional modern comic routine; artistic backdrops; a bit of dance; and a 17th-century storytelling style called Bankelsang, in which a performer stands on a bench and interprets an adjacent painting.
Here, by contrast, they play out their vaudeville routines against a backdrop of espionage, cold war intrigue and even a voyage to the Moon.
Controversy provides a useful Scottish football backdrop, as routine, in these times of results formality.
It's during a routine taxi ride, the backdrop for many of the interviews, that Sozzani tells him matter-of-factly that his father was married to another woman when he was born.
The cycling-meets-dance project will see 30 riders in LED light suits performing a choreographed routine against a filmed backdrop at the old Tetley brewery in Leeds on 16-17 May. 16-17 May
It was against that backdrop of routine right-wing dysfunction that the Times published its lengthy article.
A new study uses the backdrop of routine childhood immunizations to explore the developmental immunotoxicity of PCBs and finds that higher PCB exposure in toddlerhood is associated with reduced antibodies against diphtheria and tetanus later in childhood [ EHP 118(10):1434–1438; Heilmann et al.].
With respect to the recession, Jackman promptly hurls himself into a no-frills musical routine, complete with the cardboard backdrops of an am-dram production and gallant support from Anne Hathaway (who can actually sing).
A few real divinities here and there, working their miracles against the backdrop mostly of mere routine if not mediocrity and incompetence.
Only media analysts can gauge whether he has a point; for the rest of us, this has proved an intriguing, if sometimes tedious, backdrop to an otherwise routine European fixture.
