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...After decades of neglect, the Bolshoi had deteriorated into a firetrap, and by the time the renovation started, more than 70% of the theater's foundation had been eroded by an underground stream. Worse still - at least, for Russia's music lovers - damage caused by construction of the Moscow Metro in the 1930s and a bomb hit during World War II had forced the theater to replace the wood panels on the walls with concrete in the 1950s, ruining the acoustics. Eventually, with support from UNESCO, the government decided to fund a $700 million reconstruction project, which was started...
...single most important thing when doing academic theater is student safety at all times. The old theater was a firetrap. It had history but it wasn’t ADA [American with Disabilities Act] complaint and it wasn’t the safest building. Now all of that is completely alleviated,” Knox says...
However, Spitz stylistically redeems himself with his incredible ability to set a scene. He describes one of the clubs the band played at in their early years as being a “filthy, sweltering, fetid, claustrophobic little firetrap of a club. The walls and ceiling sweated absolute humidity; there was no exit aside from the main entrance…an ersatz ventilation pipe had been installed as a concession to the public health department.” How Spitz found out about a 40-year-old ersatz ventilation pipe that probably is no longer in existence is far beyond...
...Rangoon has grown seedier without becoming more prosperous. Karaoke pickup joints have spread like a nasty rash across the city from their original reserve in Theingyi Bazaar, a multistory firetrap of sex clubs run by Wa and ethnic-Chinese drug traffickers under the protection of Burmese military intelligence. Even the few positive changes seem, on closer inspection, not much to shout about. For example, Rangoon now boasts a dozen or so cybercaf?s, but they charge a dollar an hour?more than the average daily wage?and deny access to hundreds of sites deemed "inappropriate." Who surfs what is easy...
Muscovites may see the ornate ochre building on Tchaikovsky Street that houses the U.S. embassy as an imposing place. But the diplomats who work in the 19th century, 10-story structure consider it a dilapidated firetrap. Last week the building lived up to its sorry reputation as flames swept through the top floors, forcing the evacuation of 200 people. One American and one Soviet fireman were treated for smoke inhalation. The conflagration, the third to break out since 1977, is believed to have started accidentally in an elevator shaft before spreading to the upper floors and roof...