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...plan outlines one 10-lane bridge, one elevated loop ramp north of the Charles River and a three-lane tunnel under the river. It would cost $1.28 billion...
Running nearly an hour, the music could not be more artless: an endlessly repeated tape loop of a now deceased London derelict intoning a hymn tune. "Jesus' blood never failed me yet," he sings. "There's one thing I know, for He loves me so." The old man's voice is untrained and shaky. And yet the tape, recorded in 1971 for a documentary film, has an undeniable dignity that Bryars found irresistible. Starting with a simple piano accompaniment, the composer gradually expanded the orchestration in a series of live performances, which culminated in 1975 in a half-hour recording...
...reduced river-tunnel plan, estimated to cost $1.13 billion over nine years of construction, shrinks the proposed river tunnel from three to two lanes and reduces its length by more than one third. It would add two loop ramps on the north side of the river and would have a 12-lane bridge...
...reticent Yankee patrician, the Harvard-educated offspring of a family that once owned much of the farmland on which the Chicago Loop now stands, Fairfield Porter was always a bit of an anomaly in the New York art world. He doesn't fit the standard profile of postwar American painting. People thought -- and to a degree, some now think -- that his work was "soft": civil and private, figurative in a time of heroic abstraction, obsessed with the invocation of natural beauty. But scratch its agreeable surface, and there is flint below, and an unquenchable heat of pictorial intelligence...
After twelve years of Republicans, Hollywood's beautiful, liberal people are flocking to this friendlier administration. They lobby the president's staff on their pet issues and act like they are a part of the loop...