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Harvard officials have maintained that without the tunnel the two building’s large underground levels would be harder to use effectively. But several Cambridge residents who spoke against the tunnel argued Harvard could use the basement levels without an underground connection...
...daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.) Friedrichstrasse is a window shopper's paradise, with stores clustered around a three-building complex called the Fried-richstadt Passagen. At one end is the striking Galeries Lafayette, with an immense glass cone through its heart and a superb food center in the basement, where you can catch a reasonably-priced lunch of oysters or entrecote...
...Harrods-run American diner targeted at trendy teens. Selfridges in the last seven months has refurbished its Food Hall and added two new restaurants - the Gallery, a stylish café overlooking the Prada, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Fendi boutiques, and the Base Bar, a hip sandwich eatery in the basement music department - to its existing 15 (three are concessions). Under Barat's direction, Selfridges even won the Royal Warrant for Food, an honor that allows the store to deliver groceries daily to Buckingham Palace. The recently renovated Liberty store on Regent Street now features a high-end restaurant called Arthur...
Still, for Harrods executive chef Stephen Wheeler, who oversees a culinary team of 155 from the basement kitchens and prepares 4,000 meals, 174 breads and 300 different desserts each day, it can be frustrating not to be better-known in the world of cuisine. He is resigned: "What is most important is that we know we are preparing the highest quality of food." And making a certain fashion statement at the same time...
With these depressing convictions in mind, I went into E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial’s 20th Anniversary rerelease with basement-level expectations. And I was startled: E.T. is not a terrible film. It’s not a classic, or even a particularly good film, but it doesn’t embarrass itself in Spielberg’s traditional and self-importantly mawkish fashion. The story is a simple one—boy (Elliot, played by Henry Thomas) meets alien (E.T.), boy befriends alien, boy helps alien escape the authorities and return to his people. Within this framework, Spielberg...