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...disapproved of such grand formal gardens as Versailles, the park entailed a stupendous effort of engineering. Ten million cartloads of earth and stone were dragged in and out of the area, millions of trees, vines and shrubs were planted, the brooks that traversed it were turned, by an impressive feat of hydraulic engineering, into lakes and reservoirs; even the four systems of traffic circulation, which Olmsted designed with unusual finesse, still work admirably after more than a century. No detail, from the marble inlay of a niche or the angle of a fountain jet to the disposition of a hickory...
...serenity. The standard taxi door is accurately compared to "an opening for emerging dwarfs." The plumbing in an old hotel is like a whining, stupid pet that tries to follow one out of the lavatory. For all its naughtiness, Transparent Things is also an autumnal, even philosophical work-a feat, considering the book's brevity, even for Nabokov. Apparently finished with the luxuriant digressions of Ada, he is impatient to confront the mysteries of art and death and human folly that have always preoccupied...
...strength of her instinct not to examine that area of her life," Lessing writes of one of her victims. Such stylistic affinities with Lawrence permeate the story. It is a credit to Lessing's common sense, however, that she does not try her hand at the greater Lawrentian feat of sensualizing descriptive prose...
...offensive patterns. Yet despite this emphasis, Harvard still failed to execute. Guard Jim Fitzimmons said after the game that the tough Hoosier defense was one of the reasons Harvard failed to run its offense smoothly, but to go through a game without running one complete pattern is quite a feat...
...CURRENT PRODUCTION is pretty close to perfect. Rita Hargrave successfully accomplishes the remarkable feat of directing and choreographing a show about a chorus girl without a chorus. One particularly effective moment occurs about halfway through Ruby's third or fourth misunderstanding with Dick. In this case she has caught him kissing Ellen Martin, the established star--the one who gets sick later so Ruby can take her place--who's been ravenously pursuing him. When Ruby breaks into a mournful little number called "Raining in My Heart," the rest of the cast comes out to dance around her in plastic...