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For each, the gallery is a stage set, its proportions rationalized by Goulds.
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Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
At the event in Birmingham, Reform had built a stage set intended to symbolize a depleted nation, including a mound of trash bags (a clear reference to the city’s garbage strike), a bus stop covered in graffiti and a shuttered pub.
—Stephen Castle, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Like the Florida Panthers celebrating a second straight Stanley Cup championship on Sunday with a parade along A1A and then from a stage set up right on the sands of Fort Lauderdale beach — right across from the boozy Elbo Room and a slap-shot from the Atlantic Ocean.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 22 June 2025
All of it—the grand buildings, the wave upon wave of stone steps—was like a stage set for becoming.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
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Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
At the event in Birmingham, Reform had built a stage set intended to symbolize a depleted nation, including a mound of trash bags (a clear reference to the city’s garbage strike), a bus stop covered in graffiti and a shuttered pub.
—Stephen Castle, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Like the Florida Panthers celebrating a second straight Stanley Cup championship on Sunday with a parade along A1A and then from a stage set up right on the sands of Fort Lauderdale beach — right across from the boozy Elbo Room and a slap-shot from the Atlantic Ocean.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 22 June 2025
All of it—the grand buildings, the wave upon wave of stone steps—was like a stage set for becoming.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
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“Stage set.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stage%20set. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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