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...building incorporates state-of-the-art airport-design features, such as the 144 check-in counters that can be used by any airline, and a video display system that encourages incoming passengers to keep moving briskly along corridors to the huge customs-and-immigration area, where funky, massive bas-relief scenes of New York greet them. The airport is counting on federal agencies to increase staff at peak times; the building's public areas are designed to handle as many as 3,200 arriving passengers an hour, 60% more than...
Nakamura's work, especially her skirts of square fabric stuck on wall, seems like Surrealism gone feminist-psycho mixed with attempts at cleverness gone sickeningly trite. She draws on the materials of appearance, like bas-relief shirt pockets and women's eyelashes, and claims that this is an "embodiment for emotion" using the things that mask our emotions, yet it just doesn't work. The felt shirt pockets put on a shelf merely recall the millions of other found and seemingly found objects that already call museums home...
...just not hearing it. They toy with the very idea of food--how it is prepared, packaged, filigreed, tricked up, dramatized. They know we must not only have our daily bread but also be able to make it novel--or nouvelle. And innovation can encompass cuisines haute and bas. The motto of chef Ferran Adria is a simple but lofty "creation means not copying others." And that means bone marrow crowned with caviar as well as tagliatelle made of strips of jellied consomme. Then there are the workaday renovations: the store-bought zest that transforms the meat loaf, the iced...
...Flecktones, for whom he plays bass. (Bela Fleck themselves are all too often merely the opener for bands such as the Dave Matthews Band.) This solo outing reaffirmed his position as the most prolific and talented bassist since Jacko Pastore. The ambience of The House of Blues, with its bas-reliefs of Blues and Jazz greats, enhanced the funky bass-lines and fostered the dialogue between Wooten, the band and his audience. Coming on close to 40 minutes late with his band of a DJ, percussionist, keyboard player and guitar player, Wooten's arrival help goad the crowd (mostly students...
Bathed in blue light, musical legends gaze down in bas relief from the ceiling at House of Blues, welcoming a crowd worthy of the dishware which asserts "Unity in Diversity." Nonetheless, one won't find the usual Harvard yuppies-to-be here. Perhaps they are scared by the motto in foot-high capital letters above the bar: "The Wages of Sin is Death," choosing to frequent the dens of iniquity that are other Harvard bars...