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...whole exterior a cage where sunlight plays all day. In the morning the light slaloms up and down the bright diagonals. At twilight those same lines glow. And because the diagrid divides the building into four-story segments, it provides a human scale that an unbroken glass-curtain wall would not. Who cares that it tiptoes right up to the edge of gaudy? Given the mediocrity of so much that has been crammed into the Manhattan skyline over the past 25 years, you could do worse than risk a bit of glitter to arrive at real jubilation...
...power, but oddly enough, rather than letting the humor die with the most humorous character, Zalisk amped up the farce. There was a scene of an assassination attempt played as a sitcom, complete with broad mugging, slapstick, and a laugh track (provided by three actors behind a curtain). This scene was amusing and unsettling in its incongruity, but it was also confusing, marking a radical shift from the characterizations that had been set up to that point. The modernization was not confined to the characterizations and dress. In a cinematic touch, slides with credits and captions (such...
...intimidating-looking deity stomping on some fools and scaring away the bad mojo. Co-owner Bik Yonjan told me the work came from his father’s traditional art studio in Tibet.There’s a semicircular VIP lounge, separated from the hoi polloi by a curtain of steel beads and decorated with Mandela on the wall and Buddha’s head on a pedestal. It’s unclear what is required to gain entry, but it sure is purdy.Upstairs is also rather well-upholstered, though it lacks the suavity of the downstairs; it looks like...
...March, Zhang told The Crimson she thought she saw him in the bathroom that day, “showering with the curtain a third of the way open...
...norm and now pervades our culture, it does not need protection in the way Harvard’s newer religions do. But this is to mistake the debate, which is not about protection and tolerance, but about equal respect. Without respect, Harvard’s Christians will always curtain a part of themselves and consequently never feel comfortable about being Christians here. That Harvard is no longer the Puritan institution it was more than 300 years ago is no travesty: the school is bound to become less Christian in aspiring to student diversity. But in its shift, the Harvard community...