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Comfort Level: Way too high. Warm climate and abundance of big leather chairs mean it's always bedtime at Lemont. Again, to avoid this predicament head for the austere classrooms. The chairs were not comfortable in high school, and they are not comfortable...
Comfort level: Medium. Robbins does offer the three most comfortable seats of all the Harvard libraries. Supple red leather wing chairs and matching ottomans are dangerously alluring. Other chairs in this library are ripped or shredded and do not match the abundant oak paneling. You many find this obsession with interior decorating absurd, but the best studying comes from a mind that is at peace with its environment. So there...
...play's highest moments. Her throaty voice fills the entire theater effortlessly as she marches in like a Norma Desmond and seizes the scene. In the play's brassiest moment, she lies dying, strapped to a bed, awaiting a last ditch operation. Dr. Harmon dons his bird-like leather mask while Sarah, now a nursemaid, polishes an enormous knife. In a fit of pain, Elizabeth convulses and screams. As her bed descends beneath the stage, a beam of light illuminates her body and loud religious music plays. The scene is flashy and gratuitous, but its combination of technical and acting...
...lost some faith in our baseball players," Miller said. "He brings us back to a time when baseball players' primary goal was to get out onto the field and hit the leather off the ball...
Wynn inaugurated the era of big-spender shows in 1990 with the Mirage's $28 million Siegfried & Roy, an astounding farrago of illusion and sorcery, acrobats and armies of the knights, vanishing tigers and elephants--and leather, leather everywhere. The evening now goes for $78.35 a ticket. With the possible exception of an all-night masseuse, this is the priciest entertainment on Broadway or the Strip. But Siegfried & Roy remains a huge...