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(Spiritualism was an enormous trend in the 19th century in Britain and the United States, practiced by figures as diverse as Mary Todd Lincoln, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.) Selina has been convicted of assault and fraud, a charge that belies the complexity of events, which are gradually revealed over the course of the novel, that surround her arrest.

Echoing the beginning left-to-right pass in Titania's earlier pas with Bottom, here it progresses to a glorious, tender finale: the two begin as lovers and end as family, when Wheeldon incorporates the Changeling Child (Mira Allmeyer, whose presence belies her small stature) into their duet.

We meet her nearly a decade later as a twice-divorced, world-weary criminal defense attorney whose jaded cynicism belies her 28 years.

Eran Schaerf's work seems slick at first, but its formal basis in the design aesthetic of lifestyle magazines belies a dense network of themes and combinations of media that render it less rapidly consumed than much current art.

This formal resolution belies the intimate connection between the two spaces.

Except for the performance by Hunt, who's too restrained a butch girl--femme boy to be much fun to watch, the acting belies the myth that Americans can't act Shakespeare.

With a dizzying amount of detail, her dancers seem choreographed down to their toenails, yet they move with a blitheness that belies the difficulty.

Jack Osborne, alias Zach Granger, alias Mack Greene, manages to pull it off with a maturity that belies his years.

In fact there is a formal richness to these inventions that belies their modest means.

Designed by Foster & Partners, sculptor Anthony Caro and engineers Ove Arup & Partners, the simplicity of the span belies its complex generation.

The peaceful facade belies the buzz inside as conversations in French, English, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese filter through the halls over the soft notes of a piano adagio from a ballet class and the rhythmic pounding bass from a jazz class.

But its physical size belies the wealth of functions offered, which include a gallery (CFU is now showing the founders' own ABZ, 2002/2003), a residency (a bunk bed strapped to the wall), and a bookshop (Barnes & Noble needn't be afraid, but cognoscenti will find here what can't be found elsewhere).

The title of this collection of short stories belies the trauma, desperation, and sadness experienced by their various protagonists.

The museum's elemental simplicity belies a surprising diversity of internal spaces.