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...occupant of the building's showpiece apartment, a three-story, 7,000-sq.-ft. (650 sq m) residence complete with a marble-floored ballroom. Into it, for $15 million, move Paul and Annalisa, a creepy hedge-fund manager and his sweet wife. Paul wants to install in-wall air conditioners, which is against the building's rules. That sparks a feud with Mindy, the shrewish president of the co-op board, who's married to James, an obscure literary novelist who has just authored a massive best seller. A few floors up, another writer, Philip, a Pulitzer winner...
...dependence on reason, it is a strategic strength.” But what does any of that mean?America has yet to comprehend the power that is Islamism, distinct from Islam. In a battle that is fought as much in the mind as on the ground or in the air, terminology is important, and Islamophobe is still hurled as an insult against those who speak out against the ideology that is related to the religion only as a matter of convenience.There is no objective correlation between the behavior of the Islamists and the religion of Islam, just as there...
...least change in our point of view, gives the whole world a pictorial air,” wrote Emerson almost 200 years ago in the essay “Nature.” Fast-forward two centuries and the edgiest avant-garde cinema is just an application of the same principle—at least according to P. Adams Sitney, considered by many to be America’s foremost scholar of avant-garde cinema. Sitney was at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last Monday to deliver an illustrated lecture about the philosophy behind American avant-garde film. If anyone...
...wages.” Monsieur Jacques reached into a sizeable purse and withdrew five gold coins.”“And there, Tatiana, is your dinner,” said the Stable Boy, slapping the leopard on the haunch. Tatiana growled with satisfaction and leapt into the air. By the time she had returned to the ground, her teeth were buried in Monsieur Jacques’ neck. The artist made a small gurgling sound as bits of him disappeared down the leopard’s throat.“Good leopard,” said the Stable...
...estimated that the tearing down of old wings and construction of the new expansion will take three years, ending in 2012. After that, it will take at least another year to move back into the building and to complete commissioning of the new wings, which involves ensuring that the air quality is sufficient for the art collections to be reinstalled. The goal is for the new, expanded Fogg to re-open in 2013, after all current Harvard undergraduate classes have moved on. NEW WINGS AND OTHER THINGSThe Quincy Street expansion proposed by architect Renzo Piano, who is also currently renovating...