Word: magical
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...didn't want to create a pseudo-classical hall for classical music," says Gehry. What he created was a classical hall for an anticlassical city. In Bilbao, his curves make you think of the Spanish baroque. In L.A., they bring to mind all those magic wands in Disney sketching silver arcs in the air. Even before it opened, the building was becoming the iconographic symbol of a city that until now has had to make do with a big Hollywood sign. A few weeks ago, if you happened to be touring the garden and small outdoor amphitheaters that Gehry...
...most enjoyable, affordable and nutritious way possible." You are confusing needs with desires. To think of the new food products as nutritious is a tragic mistake. And affordable? No way! Even "enjoyable" is open to question. Perhaps more welcome to our tongues would be the magic of a tart McIntosh apple instead of a piece of candy. If we cared more about people who are starving than about our food fads, that would truly be miraculous. JACK HART Prescott, Ariz...
...Magic Money A Norwegian witch has won a €6,400 government grant to run a potion, fortune-telling and magic business. Newts and toads need not worry; she's promised not to try out spells...
...lines, on these planes full of people but light on comfort, but there was a time when flying was a joy. The Concorde, the last, best symbol of the glamorous (and exclusive) world of air travel, makes its last flight today. Looking to recapture a little of that magic, I hitched a ride last week on one of the final flights of the British Airways Concorde. What I found was a plane filled not with bankers and rock stars, but with ordinary folks looking for the flight of a lifetime...
...postmenopausal women who have been treated for breast cancer, five is a magic number. The standard therapy for tackling the majority of their tumors is surgery to remove the lumps, then the drug tamoxifen for five years to prevent cancer from recurring. After five years, the body becomes resistant to tamoxifen's effects. At that point, women stop taking it, cross their fingers and hope for the best. "There wasn't really anything available for them," explains Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, director of the National Cancer Institute. "Yet we knew that many women risk recurrences even beyond five years...