Word: goings
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...decades. And with the Wyly and Winspear, very diverse. It would be hard to imagine two architects more unlike each other than Foster, the meticulous inheritor of the principles of High Modernism, and Koolhaas, who has spent a lifetime sorting through those principles to see which ones had to go. Foster's buildings tend toward the serene and Cartesian. Koolhaas is apt to arrive at the ruptured and irregular. Foster is given to sleek materials and finely honed finishes. Koolhaas isn't above slapping what looks like AstroTurf on an outdoor terrace at the Wyly. Both of them have scored...
...stroll from the Wyly to the Winspear Opera House just across from it is to go from the raw to the cooked. The Wyly is a box full of ideas about ways to organize the theatergoing experience, but it has a deliberately rawboned feel, with few concessions to anybody's ideas of elegance, no grand limestone swoops like the one Pei provided for the lobby of his symphony hall nearby. Foster and his head of design, Spencer de Grey, weren't interested in rethinking the opera house from the ground up. What they did instead was briskly update...
...this book? Because Jewish delicatessens are an endangered species and I didn't want to see them go away. I wanted to find out why they were disappearing...
...went into a number of delis in a day, I would taste everything that was put in front of me, but I wouldn't finish it, because I didn't have enough room in me to finish it. And, you know, regular exercise, but nothing insane. I didn't go on a cleanse or a diet after, and maybe my cholesterol is 30,000 or whatever, but this is food I feel good eating as long as I don't eat too much...
...more likely a result of political conflicts from within the party, and it's mainly orchestrated by the local government. I believe the Chongqing trials are the beginning of a string of anti-corruption campaigns, but it's still unclear just how far the government will be willing to go...