Santo Loquasto's backdrop, lighted by Jennifer Tipton, suggests endless waves of sea drawn in irregular horizontal strokes with a graphite pencil.
In its unassuming way, though, "We Went to Wonderland" spans decades and continents and suggests endless complexity beneath its simple surface.
"California Dreamin' " is being released as it was shown in Cannes in 2007, which is to say in an unfinished (or, as the title parenthetically suggests, "endless") state.
As the water cycles, Adam Gopnik wrote last year in The New Yorker, it suggests "endless loss and waste," an effect that's amplified in high winds, when the water is turned off to prevent drenching, and the pools become blackened pits with shallow stagnant puddles at the bottom.
Style suggests endless experiment with technique, rigorous effort, deep training in the canon, elaboration and enhancement rather than sanguine discovery by subtraction, the possibility of change over time, crossover (positive and negative) effects between genres (Rushdie's essays versus his fiction), the linkages connecting one to the important developments in the reign of the language.
The looping streams in "Sonatra" suggest the endless flow of binary information, music for the computer age, but the limited edition offers heavy vinyl at 45 r.p.m. with normal and skewed versions, a copy of the score, and a large cover worthy of framing.
The Palestinians have sought a specific timeline, suggesting that endless stalling was slowly erasing the chances for a two-state solution.
It suggests the endless supply from which Matilda (and vicariously we) can draw to make words, which make sentences, which make stories.
The film's plotting is at times ragged and muffled, though this might be intentional, a way of suggesting the endless ramifications of the endemic corruption.
Although the silvered prosceniums suggesting an endless series of antique mirrors are a clever choice, the sets by Neil Patel, amply supplemented by Sven Ortel's video projections, lack any transporting fairy-tale magic or even simple stylistic coherence.
