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...operate on principles that can be adapted to modern midtown high-rises. For the past year, Chicago's City Hall, a 1911 Classical Revival building, has been topped by a "green roof"--a 20,000-sq.-ft. garden that was planted as a climate-control mechanism. Built from a blend of compost, mulch and spongelike materials that hold water more effectively than regular soil, the low-maintenance garden of 20,000 plantings is intended to reduce City Hall's air-conditioning and heating costs by as much as $6,000 each year...
...times, Meyer's fervid prose gets a case of blue balls, with indecipherable similes ("fast as a Sioux going to take a dump") or a juice-blend of three languages in five words, as in one inebriated axiom for living: "Camaraderie .. honest Arbeit* .. profane V?geln.** Nothing beats it!" (This is translated in a footnote, or, as Russ insists, an "editor's titnote": "* Work. ** Fucking.") His Berlin affair with German hottie Renate H?tte (later known, in Russ's "Mudhoney," as Rena Horton) is recalled as an evening of "succulent schlemmers and Gatling-gun Gesundheits!" Limning an energetic tryst with...
...fanciest purveyors try to top one another with combinations of techniques, spiced with beauty treatments. Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa in Asheville, N.C., offers "Fire, Rock, Water and Light," in which the client's body is patted down with cool water, exfoliated with a blend of sugar and aromatic oil, painted with buttermilk and honey and then wrapped, whereafter cool rocks are stroked on the face. Once demummified, the client is given a "waterfall massage"--a spraying by multiple showerheads. In September the North Carolina Association of Realtors will send 1,000 participants to a conference at Grove Park...
...King Rama IV who ensured Phetchaburi's enduring legacy back in 1860?at least to fans of grand kitsch. On a hilltop west of town, the King constructed a dazzling summer estate: palaces and stables, with enough guesthouses to shelter the entire royal court. The design was meant to blend the best of East and West, but the result was an eclectic hodgepodge of Greek columns, Thai teak, Chinese tile roofs and a rounded Italian observatory, all set in an impeccably-landscaped English-style garden...
Indian pop cinema--that exotic, rhapsodic blend of smiles and tears, song and dance--is the world's most teeming film industry. At nearly 1,000 films a year in 20 languages, its output far outstrips Hollywood's. So no surprise that an awards show honoring Bollywood (meaning Hollywood in Bombay) can fill the seats of a large arena...