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...stories). Though the design is still incomplete, Gehry expects it will feature some vertical adaptation of his trademark curves and arabesques. Not too many years ago, those features would have given pause to the structural engineers assigned to make sure buildings stand up even when they rise along irregular lines. In the late '80s, Gehry proposed a design for a new Madison Square Garden in Manhattan--which was never built--with an office tower in the shape of a vertical fish. "The construction people said you couldn't do it," he recalls. "But since then it's become easy...
...delved deeper into the pagan faiths that competed with early Christianity for followers, Mary's virginity has been challenged from the opposite direction--not as an impossible novelty but as a theme borrowed from the literature of the non-Jewish world. Stephen Patterson of Eden Theological Seminary lists divinely irregular conceptions in stories about not only mythic heroes such as Perseus and Romulus and Remus but also flesh-and-blood figures like Plato, Alexander and Augustus, whose hagiographers reported he was fathered by the god Apollo while his mother slept. "Virgin births were a rather Gentile thing," says the Very...
...young adults--for suicidal behavior when they begin drug treatment or change dosages. Doctors were also cautioned not to prescribe the drugs for mild depression without first trying talk therapy or other interventions. Finally, regulators issued a special warning about another kind of antidepressant, Effexor, saying it can cause irregular heartbeat and should be prescribed only by specialists...
...original plans, the podium would house the backstage business; upstairs, the public spectacle would unfurl. Utzon is often cast by his critics as a Hamlet-like figure, a daydreamer unable to carry out his plans. This exhibition shows quite the opposite. When the shells at first proved too irregular to cast from cement, Utzon drew on a 900-year-old Chinese treatise on architecture, Ying Zao Fa Shi, which taught the pure assembly of standardized elements. His solution was to construct the shells from prefabricated segments of the one sphere, so they could be self-supporting. Utzon had just standardized...
...clips alongside the air intakes of a beatboxer and poppy organ melodies contrasting with atonal and arrhythmic guitar riffs. The song features possibly the first awesome beatboxing-breakdown in the history of music, and continually eludes predictability with vicissitudes of style and form, quiet regular parts followed by loud irregular parts, and a who-would-have-guessed it fade-out at the end. Considered altogether, the five songs on B EP are extraordinary and delectable sonic morsels, with their calculated intelligence in choice of timing space garnished by the postmodern genre-bending of their stylistic variations...