Thus in his play Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Gar Public and Gar Private are trapped in a set of linguistic illusions that move between exuberance, cliché and pastiche, just as SB, the father of Gar, is trapped in silence, or something close to silence.
From them she draws us relentlessly into one set of optical illusions after another.
By the time Hepburn published her autobiography, in 1991, she had come to see Tracy in a very different light, but she sustained herself for decades on what appears to have been a set of furiously willed illusions: that fiction could be transformed into fact by the intensity of belief, that her lover's frequent cruelties were a sign of heroic masculinity, and that she could save him.
The fact is that the Arab revolutions have kicked a gaping hole in the world's most intricate diplomatic puzzle — a set of incredibly complex alliances, threats, illusions and understandings that has somehow prevented the Middle East from destroying itself for half a century — and it now urgently needs to be rebuilt.
In fact, most recent developments have provided us with a new set of conventional wisdoms, in essence illusions without any relevance to what really matters and happens.
Many films incorporate extraneous material within their fictions in order to set the illusion of the story they tell against the hard reality of other types of images.
Cascading velvet curtains, marquee lights, distressed hardwood and grand staircases set the illusion of an elegant 1920s theatre, while multiple stages spotlighting feather-headressed burlesque dancers complete the vintage spectacle.
Ms. Sung opened the program with "Three Illusions" (2002-4), a set of studies that concentrate on the constant transformation of timbre rather than the development of themes.
All kinds of illusions will be performed.
Yves becomes a purveyor of illusions".
