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...football coach asked him why players didn't urinate after games. With the help of sugar and lemon, Cade made the concoction more palatable, but its basic function didn't change: to replace the sodium, chloride and plasma volume that players lost during games. The still dominant sports ade, named for the team, earned the Gators a reputation as "second-halfers" who could outlast opponents. Cade...
...What was the inspiration for the architecture of this building? We had to cover the façade so we came up with the idea of covering it with something that was symbolic of Japan, which was my idea. She [Doriana Fuksas, the architect] wanted to cover it with tiny illuminated holes, but I thought we had to find something more typical of Japan so I came up with the bamboo leaves, which are more decorative and appear as a motif throughout the building. The idea of gold is symbolic of luxury...
...film actor, even if the script provides him with few opportunities to do so. As the womanizer-turned–romantic, his character connects with the audience in unintentional expressions of true emotion, which seem more genuine than some of his more scripted moments. But his macho façade contrasts too sharply with the family-oriented aspects of his character, a real Mamma’s boy with a penchant for family team-crossword games. Instead of fleshing out Cook’s character, such quirks only undermine his “player” image. Binoche encounters similar...
Sensitively planned by the architects Leers Weinzapfel—who tend to be quite modernist in their leanings—the 119-year-old building’s façade and vestibule were restored while the theatre itself underwent a drastic modernization. Looking back on the old—the walls are adorned with old playbills and posters advertising events from generations past—the Theatre nevertheless manages to shoehorn in a 270-seat theater with a new sound system, motorized lights, and a stage thrust that also serves as a scenery elevator or a orchestra pit, depending...
...revival. Christine K.L. Bendorf ’10, an intern at the NCT and board member of the Harvard Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players, believes that the general student body is already curious about the recent reappearance of the NCT’s Georgian façade, “Something that the New College Theatre has is that it is right in the middle of the College,” she says. “We walk by every day and notice the posters in the window and see this big beautiful building and theater...