Word: glassing
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...fire just a few weeks ahead of its grand opening. Ironically, fireworks celebrating the end of the Chinese New Year were responsible for starting the blaze. In a sad spectacle rich with historical metaphors, it was as if the old Chinese spirit rebelled against the tyranny of the glass and metal skyscraper behemoths now being erected across China...
...open up the Alice Tully-Juilliard building, Diller and her partners more or less exploded it. At one triangular corner they greatly extended the lobby, wrapped it in glass and stacked a glass-walled dance-rehearsal space just above. That transparent box cantilevers over the street to offer free performances for whoever walks by - like a JumboTron but with real people dancing inside it. "We were trying to strike a balance," says Diller, "between the monumental and the dematerialized." Then they sliced the new space with a multistory diagonal plane. It creates a giant triangular canopy that launches itself toward...
...there. (Though a lot of people will want to be, now that the Alice Tully concert hall has been voluptuously refashioned in a warm African wood.) And you don't even have to go inside to lounge on a pyramid of sidewalk bleacher seats that face into the glass-walled lobby so that the café scene becomes a show in itself. Try not to make a spectacle of yourself on either side of the window. But come to think of it, that's the point...
...going to pass with or without their support and that, in so far as anyone would receive credit for its perceived success, it would be Democrats. As the party out of power, the Republicans are relegated to arguing that, whatever our economic circumstances will be in the future, the glass is half-empty. Why not drum it into everyone’s head from the get-go that the reason the glass is half-empty is that the Democrats only want to spend money on things like the National Endowment for the Arts and upgrades to the National Mall...
...Sitting behind bulletproof glass in a full courtroom, Kaing Guek Eav, alias Comrade Duch, appeared relaxed as he jotted down notes while his lawyers argued for hours over the inclusion of witnesses and other details in the trial that is expected to last about three months. Duch, who is now 66, oversaw Tuol Sleng at the height of the Khmer Rouge regime's brutality in the 1970s, a waifish mathematics teacher turned zealous revolutionary cadre who ran the prison with maniacal attention to the details of the life and death of his prisoners. (Read "A Brief History of the Khmer...