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scenery

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  • n  the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale
    they worked all night painting the scenery
  • n  the appearance of a place

  • Jean-Paul Sartre once said history could be viewed as if one were looking out the back of a moving car: all the nearby scenery is a blur that starts to come into focus somewhere .
  • But the change of scenery breathes no new life into these once-exciting characters that have ossified into little more than corporate icons.
  • Here's how: a video camera records the real-life scenery behind the subject, transmits that image to a front-mounted projector, which then displays the scene on the reflective .
News & Articles

  • Hudson River land in Columbia County bought by state
    ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state has purchased 296 acres in the Columbia County towns of Stockport and Stuyvesant to help protect the scenery of the Hudson Valley.
    June 15, 2013 - Kingston Daily Freeman
  • NFL Players Ready to Thrive in New Atmosphere
        Sometimes, all it takes for an NFL player to rejuvenate his career is to switch teams. They say a change of scenery is all that is needed to help jump-start a struggling career. Maybe a player has burned bridges in one particular city; maybe he clashed with teammates or the front office; maybe he was buried on the depth chart; maybe he was part of a lousy team. For each of those reasons, a ...
    June 14, 2013 - Bleacher Report
  • Tom Marshall: Change of tournament, change of fortune for Mexico?
    Floundering in the Hexagonal, Mexico will hope a change of scenery - and continent - can help its fortunes.
    June 14, 2013 - Goal.com via Yahoo! Sports
Quotes

  • Jim Bowden in USA Today
    Sometimes guys just have off years. I think that happens. It's a part of the game. ...... He's certainly healthy, and I think a change of scenery will help him,Nationals general manager Jim Bowden said. "I think going to a pennant race...
  • Conor Jackson in The Associated Press
    I'm pumped to be here,Jackson said. "The change of scenery is good for me."
  • Jorge Cantu in SI.com
    What can I say? I'm not a minor league player. I think a change of scenery would be best,said Cantu, who hit .246 with one homer and six RBIs in 61 at-bats this spring. "It's just for the best. I don't have anything to prove down there."

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