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...mechanical-looking buildings that startle the eye with their loud primary colors and jazzy architectural stunts. Consider, for example, the firm's Atlantis condominium, an apartment tower with a bright blue grid on one side. Twelve stories up, a huge hole has been cut into the slab. The open-air décor of this "sky court" features a swaying palm tree, a curved yellow wall, a red spiral staircase and a blue whirlpool...
...1960s and early 1970s began to fade when the oil crisis hit and U.S. interest rates skyrocketed. Today the average wage-less than $150 a month-is not enough to feed the average family. Armies of beggars proliferate in city streets and scavenge for food in the refuse of open-air markets. So bad is the situation that last year the mobs took to looting supermarkets in Rio and Sao Paulo. In recent weeks teachers and metalworkers have staged demonstrations protesting mismanagement of the economy...
...paper. Near by, all that remained of what had been a section of old frame houses was a field of splintered wood, with undamaged household articles sticking out incongruously. Two rescue workers diverted themselves from the grim task of searching through the debris for bodies by staging an impromptu open-air musicale. One weary young man sat down at an undamaged piano and picked out a tune; a second snatched a toy trumpet from the wreckage of a nearby house and tooted an accompaniment...
Plans for the new building call for converting the present storage area into a 34-car private garage, extending the backside of the structure into the existing open-air private parking space behind Mass Ave to create additional office space, and designating the groundfloor space for four retail stores...
...inspiration. Her mother, who trained to be a concert pianist, insisted on lessons in several instruments, musical theory, plus extras like baton twirling (there is a fine baton riff in The Bix Pieces). Her father owned drive-in movie theaters around Los Angeles, which provided Tharp with an open-air classroom in popular culture. But she also remembers the satisfaction of watching him building and repairing his property, "brick and mortar, step by step." That is how Twyla Tharp has constructed her career. Which brings us to her third great inspiration, George Balanchine. Unlike most people in the dance world...