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...almost complete failure. The stultifying prose surrounding his time in the surgery, the flimsiness of the characters, and the dull pacing of the narrative itself—unable to create real suspense surrounding even the most extreme of scenarios—conspire to sink Saturday like a lead balloon. It is perhaps no wonder then that McEwan was testy at his reading, snapping at the audience’s admittedly fatuous questions and reading a lengthy segment spanning each of the novel’s ill-fitting strands as if in defiance. Everybody fails at times, and McEwan...
...last time that stars of the gallery circuit were also famous in the wider world. The decade included not only the wild-style markings of Basquiat but also the slatherings on broken plates of Julian Schnabel, the lovable doodles of Keith Haring, the metallic metal bunny balloon of Jeff Koons--even your mother had heard about that stuff...
...Victorians, is a little slice of heaven called the Quadrangle. It is here where fortunate princes and princesses reside in the Castles Currier, Cabot, and Pforzheimer. Don’t believe me? We have towers to prove it; four in Currier alone, from which illustrious dukes occasionally launch water balloon crusades from the turrets onto rogue river-dwellers who venture into our lands...
...last piece of the program, “Downtown Crossing,” was the world premier of Schwartz’s own composition. Paying homage to the title, Lowell Lecture Hall was decked out in balloon-lined music stands connected by colored tape covering the floor, representing the major stations and lines of the Boston T subway system...
...compact node of entertainments and spectacles in a society of people in motion. That's the spirit of Peter Cook's Instant City in a Field Long Elevation from 1969, a deadpan fantasia of a city with all its diversions that could be lowered from the air by balloon. The philosopher Francis Bacon once wrote that "the monuments of wit survive the monuments of power." If that's true, then these whimsical flights of fancy will still be around long after some of the uglier skylines have crumbled. Let's hope...