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...Some pieces are indoors, in the Palm House (built 1844-48), the Temperate House (1860-99) and the 1986 Princess of Wales Conservatory (including Sun, above). They're made out of delicate flat or hollow pieces of hand-blown glass in a rainbow of colors, and are assembled on site. The display includes Chihuly's latest series, Fiori (Flowers), and two installations floating on the Palm House pond: Thames Skiff, a boat crowded with spikes, bulbs and shoots, and Walla Wallas, onion shapes floating in the water. Chihuly's sculpture just might inspire visitors to fill their window boxes...
...traditional rock star. He's just too wet. And while it's O.K. to be sensitive, it's asking a lot to be sensitive and cliched. That taste in his mouth on The Hardest Part? Bittersweet. His head? In the sand. The clouds? Silver lined. Still, the man can flat-out sing, and when the band whips up its beautiful hurricanes and he stops trying to fix us (yes, there's actually a song called Fix You), X&Y has moments where you really can lose yourself, particularly on the title track, when Martin briefly addresses life with the wife...
...three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. The cat is in the house. One, two, three? " Each morning at her rented flat in Vancouver, Canada, between yawns and yoga stretches, Jacqueline McKenzie will listen to her language tapes. You'd think the 37-year-old graduate of Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art would be a dab hand at American accents by now, but you try saying such lines as "statistically significant disease cluster" in impeccable shotgun Seattle-style. As agent Diana Skouris in the Francis Ford Coppola-produced TV sci-fi series The 4400, McKenzie does that...
...McKenzie, home is a somewhat trickier proposition. Besides the rented flat in Vancouver, there's her car, which she drove up from L.A. filled to the roof with her books and painting easel. Now divorced from an orthopedic surgeon she met when they were students at high school, she was more recently linked with actor-director Simon McBurney, co-founder of London's famed Theatre de Complicite. "I'm very reticent talking about those kind of things," she says. Instead, "where my parents and my sister are - that is where home is," she says. To this beloved harbor...
...minor distraction; it's the words that stop newcomers in their tracks. Newspapers refer casually to tikanga (Maori culture) and kaupapa (philosophy or plan). TV hosts open and close their shows with haere mai (welcome) and ka kite ano (see you later). Acquaintances say they're flat out with mahi (work) and have a hui (meeting) to get to. John Macalister, a writing teacher at Victoria University of Wellington, returned to New Zealand in 1997 after 16 years away and felt like a foreigner. Forced to look up one te reo (Maori) word after another, he started jotting them down...