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...conjoin. But the levees it erected to keep the floods out also hemmed Cairo in. Now the town wants to extract itself from its history by using it. The 1872 Customs House has been turned into a museum, glorifying its days of big grain and big gambling. The old Gem Theater is being restored. And the Riverlore mansion, once owned by a riverboat captain, is being converted into a bed-and-breakfast. There's a plan to rent out the dead downtown stores for a $1 a year. And Cairo has even secured a $1.5 million grant to give Main...
Responding to this captivating and sweet-natured gem with such venom is like breaking a butterfly on a wheel. Even more disturbing is the unduly harsh attack on Branagh. In a time when filmmakers rely increasingly on technological tricks, Branagh tells a story with clarity and poetic imagery. Love's Labour's Lost, his riskiest venture yet, floats like a feather on a summer breeze. VIRGINIA WILHELM New York City...
Just as the power station had three sections--one for the boilers, one for the turbines and one for the transformers--the Tate Modern has three divisions as well. Where the boilers were is now seven floors of museum, including 84 gallery spaces. The huge Turbine Hall is the gem: it has been transformed into a 115-ft.-high entrance hall, where visitors walk down a 75-ft.-wide ramp and encounter three enormous Louise Bourgeois towers, I Do, I Undo and I Re-do, comprising rusting spiral staircases and convex mirrors. On a bridge overhead is her gargantuan spider...
Freshman Madhu Saty, who pitched a one-run, three-hit gem against Northeastern last week, boasts the staff's highest winning percentage with a 2-0 record in nine appearances...
Witness the latest gem from Al Gore '69: "My mother always made it clear to my sister and me that women and men were equal--if not more...