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scene

In a play, a subdivision of an act, marking a change of location or mood, or, for example, the entrance of an important character. A scene is roughly the equivalent of a chapter in a book. Traditionally changes of scene were marked by changes of props (properties); hence the term ‘scenery’.



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``There will be hotels arriving on the scene that will stimulate retail and restaurant growth around them.
Arriving on the scene, Sealey delivered the two children into the hands of his colleagues through a bathroom window and carried Smith, unconscious from smoke inhalation, to safety.
Since arriving on the scene as a Beck's Futures nominee in 2000, McKenzie--perhaps best known as a painter, though her practice might be understood as a nonhierarchical set of activities that also includes writing, curating, event organizing, and generally embodying a persona that seems part Edith Sitwell, part Lydia Lunch--has revisited the styles and iconography of a number of twentieth-century avant-gardes, from Suprematism and Constructivism to post-punk club culture.
 
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