Staged in Damrosch Park, in a tent scrupulously designed in the image of the Kabuki theaters of more than 300 years ago, this vibrant addition to the Lincoln Center Festival 2004 features not only the harrowing death scene described above but also a pulse-racing rooftop chase that gives fresh and startling meaning to the notion of special effects.
One has to wonder about the point of being scrupulously unbeholden when the result is a spectacle more lavish in its servility than almost any that Versace — a master of self-promotion who often managed to arrange for photographs from his ad campaigns to be used on the covers of fashion magazines — ever staged on his own behalf.
The idea that a campaign would stage-manage television events was seen as shocking in that more innocent day, and Joe's scrupulously reported account chronicled the story in a quietly incriminating deadpan.
Yet for a company that used to brand itself as theatrically bolder than the Met, there was a striking contrast between Mr. Miller's scrupulously realistic "Traviata" and the Met's surreal staging by Willy Decker, introduced in the 2010-11 season, which returned to acclaim and big houses in April.
Patricia Sevchuk of Ewing, N.J., said her daughter Laura scrupulously paid her Cobra premiums while being treated for late-stage breast cancer.
A more likely explanation for the high frequency of cut-marks and completeness of the vaults is that the skulls were scrupulously prepared or 'cleaned' using flint tools as an initial stage in the manufacture of skull-cups.
I was surprised to see the stage direction credited to a young Italian director, Lev Pugliese: while scrupulously detailed, it contained a number of regressive clichés (e.g., Tosca gesturing grandly to the cheap seats before jumping off the Castel Sant'Angelo) and stock conventions that recalled the City Opera of a much earlier era.
She added: "If you send them home happy, they don't leave saying, 'Gee, I wish there were more furniture on stage,' or 'Gee, I wish she wore one more dress".' The Weisslers have a reputation for scrupulously watching the bottom line, but Mr. Weissler said that the sets were not made simple to save money.
Supermom is scrupulously clean.
We scrupulously avoid that".
