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...channels this passion positively, with plans to create her own concentration, fashion and taste, and insists that iit is happening.i One day she hopes to be known as ithe Goddess of Design.i But for right now, sheis creating costumes for the Dunster House Opera and making her own clothes with the help of her assistant, A. Helena Jonsson i03, a fellow sewing fanatic. Every few weeks or so, Waddell hauls her eclectic range of finished products to the Garment District in Central Square, where she can hawk her wares. At an average cost of about $30, Erica sells about half...
...Rosow isnit mixed up in a soap opera-esque, iwhois-the-father-of-my-babyi drama...
...content is king in the new world of global media, the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is no minor princeling. His The Phantom of the Opera has played in London's West End for 13 years and grossed an astounding $3.1 billion worldwide in ticket sales, to say nothing of CDs and sweatshirts. From his pen have also flowed Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and Starlight Express. And Evita, with a little help from Madonna, grossed $146 million as a movie after racking up millions as a play. Like many an aristocrat before him, Lord Lloyd Webber (he was made a baron...
...seriously tilted constructions that are erupting now required a technological leap, namely the emergence of more sophisticated versions of computer-assisted design, CAD, which make it easier to conceive and build the most complex irregular forms. When the billowing Sydney Opera House was under construction four decades ago, it went millions of dollars over budget because of the difficulties in translating Joern Utzon's arching sail forms into a structure that would actually stand up. These days you could practically dash the thing off on your Palm Pilot. Adventurous architects are working with the same software used by aircraft engineers...
...them to lose their starting positions and who then succumb to unlimited sex, drugs and fried foods will remain ascendant, their posters plastered on the walls of boys' bedrooms across America. But it's pro wrestlers who will reign supreme, because they are the embodiment of sport as soap opera. With wrestling's incomparable melding of the trailer park and Valhalla, its intricate and interlacing narratives, its music, pyrotechnic stagecraft and glorification of oratory, it is the Gesamtkunstwerk--the total artwork--of the sports and entertainment world. Professional wrestling will be the single most powerful influence on all other sports...