Word: closers
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...closer the building discloses its secret life. Screen-printed onto its steel exterior are ghostly images from photographs of old Guthrie performances. Step inside and that covered bridge turns out to be an extension of the lobby, where mirrored window ledges scramble the views and make them pointedly artificial. The theater begins before you reach your seat...
...effect is to turn the entire 31-story exterior into a watery pixel field of color, blooms of orange, fuschia and reds near the base giving way to clouds of blue closer to the sky, with the occasional panel of yellow or red appearing wherever it may. At night a lighting system adds blue, yellow and white in varying combinations. Nouvel has called his building, which houses a local water company, "a fluid mass that bursts through the ground like a geyser under permanent, calculated pressure." That would be one way to look at it. As just about everyone...
...Still, he feels the British media have purposely put it on a pedestal, purely to bring it down. "In America they'd say, 'This is great. We're going to make it work.' But here we say, 'It's great, but that door could be a little bit closer there,'" he says. "It's a British disease to knock things...
Clinton is well aware of the long odds she faces in the battle against Barack Obama for delegates. She knows that as the Democratic National Convention gets closer, the increasingly bitter back and forth between the two campaigns hurts Obama's chances of winning a general election and reinforces the image of the Clintons as a power-hungry couple who will do anything to win, even if they damage the Democratic Party...
...took to the turf for photos with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, it was Sarkozy who looked keenest for a kick about, back-heeling a ball toward a much more bashful Brown. And while on paper, neither leader had to concede any precious ground in a summit declaration pledging closer ties between Britain and France, in spirit, Sarkozy's signature stood out the boldest...