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ad compositor

October 27, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Ad compositors put together the advertisements you see in the newspaper. Sometimes they design the ads themselves based on a client’s needs (which can change […]

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perfumery

October 20, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Like a musical composer, a perfumer designs fragrances by combining many “notes”, or individual scents, with fixatives that keep the scents from dissipating. Many perfumes […]

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On Horror

October 4, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

“Horror is not a genre, like the mystery or science fiction or the western. It is not a kind of fiction, meant to be confined […]

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On movie reviewers

September 9, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

I’ve been thinking about movie reviewers today. Specifically, I’m remembering the time that my husband and some friends of ours hit the dollar theater to […]