Word: greenes
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...rails with his Dogville and Manderlay epics, that, hey, the guy can make a normal movie, and with the highest skill. There are visions here worth savoring, pure von Trier weirdo-magic, like the sight of Gainsbourg lying on the forest ground, willing herself to blend with the green. Through simple grace notes - photos from the previous summer of the boy's shoes put on the wrong feet, and, in one of several allusions to The Shining, a thesis notebook whose pages reveal handwriting that grows less coherent and into scrawls - the director deftly drops hints of madness...
...does all that gel into a trend line? Well, it doesn't. The talk of economic 'green shoots' from a couple weeks ago seems to have pulled back. Now a lot of the talk is focused on a more-modest analogy involving first and second derivatives. Without getting too far into the scary Calculus stuff, the point is this: we may still be headed downhill but we're now headed a little bit slower. That seems like a sensible way to interpret what's going on. And perhaps even accurate...
While the Fete is particularly renowned, other formals on campus—including the freshman formal—draw similar patterns of behavior. With money to be made, more and more people seem to be looking forward to the green, not the gala. You don’t need to be an economics concentrator versed in game theory to understand demand; with friends from other houses, seniors trying to get to that elusive 12th formal, and guests visiting from out of town, there will always be people clamoring for admission. Buying formal tickets simply to sell them, however...
...Carrotmobs also carry extra appeal during tough economic times. Participants don't have to donate anything. They just shop for products they were planning to buy anyway, adjusting the time and place of purchase. By doing so, they help green a local business...
...towards considerations of mixed-income and affordable housing in the future neighborhood, as well as the density and connectivity of the planned residential communities. Bob Kroin, the BRA’s chief architect, opened the meeting with a PowerPoint presentation detailing a vision of a transformed neighborhood with highlighted green avenues and parks that would connect residential sectors to the Charles River. He said that the “industrial history of North Allston has left it with major gaps in infrastructure that might otherwise have consolidated connected residential communities,” but that because the Holton Street Corridor...