Along the way the play, set in 1970, touches on a number of topics — racism, the Vietnam War, sex — though it doesn't grab hold of any of them for long.
Then there is a toilet seat lid made of seashells and other seaside touches set in blue-tinted acrylic -- a flamboyant touch in one of the four bathrooms.
The many types of kinetic art include manipulated masks; jointed dolls, figures, and toys; whirligigs (spinning toys); pinwheels spun by wind or candle heat; and balance figures set in motion by a touch.
The first spot in the first break, for new Bud Light Platinum beer, is set in a brewery and touches on a theme of work and making things that will be repeated several more times tonight in additional spots.
"American Milkshake" is a coming-of-age movie set in the '90s that touches on subjects like race and sexual identity.
This affecting comedy about getting old and out of touch is set in the near future and finds Frank Langella in good form as an elderly former cat burglar of legendary reputation, long-divorced and living alone in upper New York State.
[ image: /photos/590953c22179605b11ad3b14]"Touch" is set in Sawgamet, "a north woods boomtown gone bust" (as the press materials put it), where "the cold of winter breaks the glass of the schoolhouse thermometer, and the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the mysteries and magic lurking in the woods".
Though "Design" was set in an office, the plot touches broad themes.
They acknowledge the necessary, dark, dangerous thrill of ankle-breaking hinterlands, before hedge-strimming and gloss touch-ups set in with sober age.
In Carey's touching novel, set in a London museum of "clocks and watches, automata and other wind-up engines," a grieving curator immerses herself in 19th-century journals about the construction of a mechanical bird.
