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...designed such innovative buildings as the Torre Agbar in Barcelona and the newly opened Mus?e du Quai Branly in Paris, had found another design challenge. Upscale home-furnishing stores are now rolling out his bathroom fixtures, which he designed to eliminate drips, washers and howls of discomfort from the modern home's most intimate space...
...founded the equestrian theater Zingaro (Italian for gypsy) in 1984, has a new show, Battuta (beat or rhythm in Romany), which also features bears, geese, dogs and acrobatics galore. But this is no circus act-it's a celebration of the migratory tradition, and of the cycle of life modern society seems to have forgotten. Resplendent brides, angry fathers, jealous rivals and belly dancers race around the circular arena on their beautiful steeds, as dueling bands-strings from Transylvania and brass from Moldavia-drive the whole spectacle toward climax. Battuta offers feasts and romance, weddings and funerals, imbuing them with...
What's in a name? New York City's French Culinary Institute (FCI), arguably the most comprehensive cooking school in the U.S., is acting on the modern American preference for Italian food by creating the Italian Culinary Academy. So henceforth the FCI will be known as the International Culinary Center, encompassing the French institute and the Italian academy in its expanded, state-of-the-art premises on Broadway and Grand...
...allowances to a newly independent, democratic state. Jewel-encrusted lipstick cases and cigarette lighters were sold off to pay debts, while stunning palaces crumbled for lack of upkeep. But Jaffer's sumptuously illustrated love letter to the era remains, a jewel fit for the coffee table of any modern-day maharaja. -By Aryn Baker...
...Notwithstanding that meadow in Aspen?or the record TV audiences in the U.S. for the tournament, or the fact that nobody takes the U.S. team lightly these days?the World Cup is a distinctly non-American global event. That makes it unusual. In most aspects of modern life, we have become accustomed to think that the U.S. will dominate, call the shots, shape the way everyone else conducts themselves. But in football (for some, surely, this is part of its charm) the U.S. is just one of the crowd. Its team is on the level of Sweden, say, or Mexico...