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...would give some control over the physical fabric of the Square," Gifford says. "There will have to be more sensitivity to things like the scale of buildings, lighting and density...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, Imtiyaz H. Delawala, and Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: With More Growth Ahead, City Fights To Preserve History, Tranquility | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

...imagined, the familiar and the foreign, the west and the non-west. The first set, where the male protagonists first discuss their desire to play Earnest, is a wonderful mix of European fin-de-siecle charm and the exoticism of the East. Long silk saris drape the fabric wall paper of this 19th century English drawingroom. A hookah adorns the mantelpiece, and a Gaugin-like scene of Tahiti floats above a Rodin-like Cupid. Set Designer Nithya Raman '02 has adroitly brought an exotic, mystical flavor to her European interiors. Her designs emphasize the distinction between the familiar...

Author: By Angma D. Jhala, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Importance of Seeing Earnest | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

...intervention into the historic fabric of the garden, in terms of the final result, will be as minimal as possible," Urban says...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Construction May Endanger Dumbarton Oaks Gardens | 1/10/2000 | See Source »

...from a star. The results were announced at a meeting of the Royal Society in London presided over by J.J. Thomson, who in 1897 had discovered the electron. After glancing up at the society's grand portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, Thomson told the assemblage, "Our conceptions of the fabric of the universe must be fundamentally altered." The headline in the next day's Times of London read: "Revolution in Science... Newtonian Ideas Overthrown." The New York Times, back when it knew how to write great headlines, was even more effusive two days later: "Lights All Askew in the Heavens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Sometimes it flies, sometimes it crawls, but it always passes inexorably. We mark it, save it, waste it, bide it, race against it. We measure it incessantly, with a passion for precision that borders on the obsessive. Time is so vitally enmeshed with the fabric of our existence, in fact, that it's hard even to conceive of it as an independent entity--and when we try, the result is less than enlightening. Pondering the mystery of what time really is, St. Augustine wrote in his Confessions, "If no one asks me, I know; but if any person should require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Riddle of Time | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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