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...first marriage and her bewilderment over what Hollywood wanted her to become. (Interested publishers are advised not even to bother asking.) Several years ago, worried about leaving the diaries behind as she globe-hopped from one job to the next, she locked them in a safety-deposit box in London. The morning after she won the British Academy Award for Best Actress, she decided to retrieve them and revisit her younger self, a girl who was "absolutely desperate to be out in the world on my own two feet...
...people who have busted open that box are the architectural firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, working with the firm FXFowle. The husband-and-wife team of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio - they added Charles Renfro's name to the firm five years ago - were better known for years as thinkers, conceptual artists and seriously funny provocateurs. (One of their projects, the Blur Building, on a Swiss lake, was a "pavilion" that was mostly a fog of water vapor.) But over the past few years, they've proved that unconventional ideas can have solid, satisfying consequences. In 2006 they completed their first...
...open up the Alice Tully-Juilliard building, Diller and her partners more or less exploded it. At one triangular corner they greatly extended the lobby, wrapped it in glass and stacked a glass-walled dance-rehearsal space just above. That transparent box cantilevers over the street to offer free performances for whoever walks by - like a JumboTron but with real people dancing inside it. "We were trying to strike a balance," says Diller, "between the monumental and the dematerialized." Then they sliced the new space with a multistory diagonal plane. It creates a giant triangular canopy that launches itself toward...
With Harvard already a player down, junior Cori Bassett joined Buesser in the box after she sent an opponent sprawling on the ice to draw a roughing call...
...oldest in intercollegiate competition, dating back to 1910. With bragging rights and crucial league points on the line, it was no surprise that both teams came onto the ice with their sticks swinging, ready to play. The Crimson and the Big Red combined for 28 minutes in the box, taking penalties for roughing, high-sticking, and tripping, among other infractions.And despite Cornell’s overpowering offense, it was Harvard that came out on top for its biggest win of the season with effective special teams play.“I thought we did a lot of good things...