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...value to keep it from being demolished," sniffs He Bing, a park project manager. A blueprint of what Shanghai's new urban heart will look like in five months is taped above his head. On it, the Pei house is gone. The only building that emerges unscathed is a nondescript gray affair that once housed the office of a Communist Party magazine. "Now, that building has real history," says He. The Pei home may house a family's soul, but it holds the wrong kind of history...
...final building designed by James Hoban had dramatically shrunk from L'Enfant's original dream house, it was still the biggest in America when Adams moved in on Nov. 1, 1800. His arrival at about noon from Philadelphia caused little stir when he came down Pennsylvania Avenue in a nondescript carriage, one manservant on horseback behind him. Adams did some routine work in a makeshift office on the first floor of the still unfinished structure, ate supper, then took a candle to make his way up a servants' winding staircase to his bedroom. The main staircase was not finished...
...Lewis began as a journeyman director (sample titles: "Blazing Six Shooters," "Bombs Over Burma"). He let the nondescript nature of his assignments serve as a springboard for experimentation, framing shots in the most unconventional ways - and thus "Wagon Wheel Joe" was born. Lewis told Peter Bogdanovich in an interview that appears in the book "Who the Devil Made It," I thought to myself 'How can I distract the audience from this... I put a wagon wheel in front of the camera; you looked at it - it was an artistic shot - and before you could analyze the scene, it was over...
...Thayer Hall, south of Canaday, is a nice, fairly nondescript dorm. About 20 people share each of Thayer's hallway bathrooms. Thayer adds a new twist to Harvard's entryway system: its hallways are actually social...
Wait--put down that sandwich. Do you really know what you're eating? That could have mutant food in it! That's right, dining hall food could indeed be made from mutant food. Who wouldn't be afraid of mutant food? The nondescript terms used to describe it--names including "engineered" and "altered"--conjure images of cows with two heads and mutant killer tomatoes. Common sense and popular stereotyping suggest that fluorescent puddles of green goo and nuclear power plants create these atrocities; Homer Simpson has certainly created tons of "altered" food through his various accidents over the years...