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Death in the movies is usually swift and merciful. A gun goes off, and someone's brains are splattered Pollock-like across a wall. Or a blue steel blade flashes in the night, and someone is left crumpled on the carpet, surrounded by a spreading crimson stain. Or an asteroid strikes Earth, and hundreds of colorful New Yorkers are crushed by the Chrysler Building. Sigh. We should all die so crisply and photogenically...
...time in insulting his hosts, throwing U.S. support behind the "brave" protesters calling for Malaysian prime minister Mahathir's ouster. Malaysian trade minister Rafidah Aziz called it "the most disgusting speech I've heard in my life." But TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister says Mahathir's is one carpet the U.S. won't stop urinating...
...acoustics. Its interior is filled with white statues and chandeliers, making it classic and elegant, although the seats might feel a little like those in a Harvard lecture hall (no, not in the Science Center--no one would go see any respectable performances in a hall with purple carpet and green chairs); its beauty makes it the perfect place to polish one's social graces. If one goes, one must be cautious. To fall asleep would just be embarrassing. To clap in between movements (hint: that's the wrong time) would be downright humiliating. This is what the program...
...renovations, several featuresremain unchanged inside the building. Theseusually create a sharp, almost comical contrastnext to the newer, flashier areas. The brick walljust inside the entrance remains unchanged, forexample, but no longer fits with the new parquetflooring and cheery yellow walls. The staircase,which was only recovered in brown carpet above thethird floor, looks even more ridiculous. Now thelower stairs, with their black stone steps, standout like sore thumbs against the modern design.Perhaps the carpenters, in their haste to finishon time, forgot to recover the bottom stairs.Students can also wonder at the rationale behindthe oddly-shaped bench outside the auditorium andthe...
...dozen of the thousands of plates that the old demon gouged and scribbled into existence--are to be hung. The room is an expansive stage designer's version of a renovated Provencal farmhouse, only brand-new, and with touches not found on the Cote d'Azur, such as a carpet by Claude Picasso and a ceiling in the entrance hall thickly lined with broken amphorae brought in from Mexico. The paintings--still lifes from the '40s, and a lush little jewel of a head of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter--actually look terrific in here, with the bright desert light...