Word: artfully
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...short time is bound to be wasteful. "Every village wanted to have the same dog kennel," jokes Klaus F. Zimmermann, president of the Berlin-based German Institute for Economic Research (known by its German acronym, DIW). East Germany today has a number of promising industries and state-of-the-art roads and railways, but it also has superfluous airports, oversized water-treatment plants and a collection of heavily subsidized industrial white elephants, all built at the taxpayers' expense. "Floodlit sheep meadows," grumbles Reiner Holznagel, managing director of the German Federation of Taxpayers. "In every district you can find projects that...
...small, in many ways, has been good for his art. Moving off-Broadway - which he did with Sunday in the Park with George, his groundbreaking work on painter Georges Seurat - proved something of a relief to Sondheim. "I remember being very exhilarated," he says. "I found it liberating. It was nonprofit, so I could indulge myself. We were less worried about the commercial aspects of the piece...
...coils of razor wire glint in the prairie sun like silver tumbleweeds, piled against the chain-link perimeter fence around the Two Rivers Detention Facility in Hardin, Mont. Two years ago, the town (pop. 3,600) celebrated the completion of this $27 million state-of-the-art private prison, capable of holding 464 inmates. Convinced that the facility would provide employment for more than 100 people and a steady source of municipal income, Hardin and a neighboring town issued revenue bonds to finance its construction and turned it over to a for-profit prison-management corporation. On a 40-acre...
...Spellberg, a joint English and Romance Languages and Literatures concentrator, submitted his senior thesis entitled “Art and Dream in Marcel Proust,” which explores the theme of dreaming in Proust’s novels, a topic he said has fascinated him for years...
...Family Value. The Smiley family has run Mohonk Mountain House in New York's Hudson Valley for 140 years, so it's no surprise they've perfected the art of hospitality, welcoming guests with touches like afternoon tea and homemade cookies every day. To commemorate the hotel's founding, the chef is re-introducing the first dishes served in the dining room, like codfish cakes, German potato pancakes, and cinnamon-raisin bread pudding. With its old-fashioned sitting room, complete with fireplace and comfy reading chairs (and no TVs blaring to disrupt your reverie), the hotel is famous...