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...nearly four decades later, the aging and dilapidated buildings are about to be given a second life: the affordable housing complex will relocate to land further down Western Avenue in the coming years, giving residents more modern facilities on Harvard’s dime and handing control of the site’s prime real estate to the University...
...insiders believe that once the storm blows over, demand is bound to rise for the same reasons it did last time - a large, young workforce; gradual but consistent liberalization reforms; and a high rate of consumer and private-sector savings. "The silver lining is that once this phase ends, land and property prices will be corrected to rational levels, speculators will be out, and the sector will have stronger fundamentals," says Shukla. If everyone's prayers go right, the goddess will eventually be propitiated and her blessings will issue forth once more...
...shadowy pact with the Devil to make sure he shoots surely in the all-or-nothing finals. But Mr. Snyder, as well as singer Emily Pulley, who played a fretful and unlikable Agathe, does not act with enough conviction to make anyone really care whether his bullets will land. The bright-voiced and comical soprano Heather Buck, in the archetypal sassy-best-friend-to-the-leading-lady role, fared much better as Ännchen.The vague and muted acting of most of the ensemble went hand in hand with the production’s unfathomable setting. With...
...containing stuffed birds, where the electric, turquoise-shaded feathers of the Spangled Cotinga bird contrast with the Brazilian Tanager’s deep red feathers. To the right of these spectacular birds, mounted on the wall in a somewhat less flashy display box, are dozens of shells of Cuban land snails. The perfectly spaced rows and columns draw attention to the mesmerizing symmetry and subtle differences in shading among the shells. Each turn in the gallery provides something more brilliant, exotic, and impressive than what lay behind, from the graceful sweeping plumage of the Resplendent Quetzal to the full zebra...
...Deathbowl” is full of homemade footage of skaters finding inventive ways to use the plazas of New York, whether by grinding rails or performing ollies on ledges. One particularly impressive scene sees a former skater jump over 5 garbage cans in Washington Square Park to land on another skateboard, 15 years after he last performed the trick.Nichols and Charnoski frequently talk about skateboarding as “liberating unused space.” They are also clearly amused by the unintended results of design practices and, as Nichols says, how “little kids figure...