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...design - the Stairway to Nowhere, the Swiss Cheese Wall - define Miami the way the Plaza once epitomized New York and the Ritz embodies Paris. And it spotlights what still puts food on the table in Florida: tourism. In that sense, the Fontainebleau's resurrection may be less an unseemly display of ostentation than a defiant display of pluck. "Our intent is to change the economic momentum here," Karawan insists. (See 50 authentic American experiences...
...were a Friends episode) consists of a ruthlessly precise forensic catalog of those killings, complete with torn nylons and vaginal swabs, along with the stories of the victims and the investigating detectives. It is a police procedural straight from the precinct of hell. It is also as bravura a display of novelistic mastery and as devastating a reading experience as you are likely ever to encounter. By the time Archimboldi does show up in Part 5, a belated Godot, we are very far past the possibility of any redemptive epiphany...
...Pierre Menard Gallery. “His paintings are a kind of iconography to reflect his emotions and important landmarks in his life.” The two paintings of Weld Boathouse, which Hannah first saw at his father’s 25th reunion in 1967, are on display alongside his other work. “I think Harvard was the most enjoyable thing [my father] ever did,” Hannah says. “When I would be at Harvard, I would be aware that this is the place. This place is very special...When I was painting...
...director Danny Boyle. Boyle is not exactly in the same realm of either drug-addled “Trainspotting” or zombie-loving “28 Days Later,” but his ability to create fully-realized worlds within his films is still on full display. The slums of Mumbai are a brightly colored fantasy world in which boys ride on top of trains and industry is but a cold and brutal intrusion.Writer Simon Beaufoy turns the novel “Q and A” by Vikas Swarup into a structurally fascinating screenplay, but the film?...
...What are you going to call your article?” my roommate asked. “The Tool Factory?” But I thought there was something refreshing about the openness of their ambition. The Harvard social code assumes that every student is wildly ambitious, but any display of ambition is seen as gauche. After three years of this, an overt bid for status—even an outrageous one—seemed kind of sweet. And these boys were so young. Have you ever experienced a devastating setback? I asked Chris. Last year, he said...