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...heart, Djamaa El-Fna is all about the snails. Street vendors selling the tasty mollusks take up an entire side of the square with a long line of vats, each piled with a mountain of mottled brown shells. As ubiquitous as hot dog vendors in Manhattan, snail stands occupy street corners in all of Morocco's major cities, attracting hungry folk on their way home from work or on a night out with friends. For about $1, a small bowl of 20 or so b'push can be yours?still in the shell, heads attached. Either suck them...
...ugly last week, with both sides arguing over how hefty a corpse Dr. Robert Atkins left behind. Not since the death of Ayatullah Khomeini have people fought so much over a dead body. From the moment Atkins died from head injuries after slipping on a patch of ice in Manhattan last April at age 72, the low-fat fanatics have been trying to prove the low-carb guru had been on a diet to disaster. Atkins did have heart disease, and suffered a cardiac arrest in 2002, but his family and staff maintain his heart problems were...
...thing such an effort must avoid at all costs is simply aping the movie - precisely the flaw of When Harry Met Sally. The film gave you fantasy visions of Manhattan: Central Park in the autumn, the famous Shakespeare & Co. bookstore and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This production is so cramped by the stage that you feel like you're in a Manhattan apartment; Central Park is strangely depicted by giant falling leaves projected onto the back wall. Loveday Ingram's production, with its single white-room set, tries to find a cinematic fluidity using sliding walls to cut between...
...quotidian at Harvard. This insistence on the role of nature in public life was initially missing from Arad’s entry, Van Valkenburgh says, and was recaptured when Walker added legions of trees to the plaza that created an urban sanctuary in the middle of downtown Manhattan...
...this balance between the sensitive and the shocking, the key ideas of remembering the event and the fallen are both embodied. What resulted from the strenuous jury process, Van Valkenburgh suggests, is the start to the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan...