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...compete with the art, a complaint that's been raised against Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Daniel Libeskind's addition to the Denver Art Museum. "I wanted a building that artists would appreciate," says Holl. So at eye level the galleries maintain their composure. It's overhead where he gets busier, playing with tilted ceilings and oversize curving alcoves that operate like cloud formations--meaning there's always something interesting going on up there, but gently enough that it doesn't demand your full attention...
...gulp theory. The basic laws of restaurant economics state that meals keep getting bigger because food is cheap and fixed overhead--staff, rent, equipment--is the same no matter how much is piled on your plate. So giant servings are a win-win: you pay a little extra for a lot more food, and the restaurant makes extra profit. It's the same rule that created tubs of movie popcorn, venti-size coffee cups and Burger King's Meat'normous Omelet Sandwich. It's why no restaurant will ever give you a reasonably sized stack of pancakes...
...occasional beach ball, water balloon, and crowd-surfer passed overhead, undergrads in plastic ponchoes sang and danced Saturday in a muddy Tercentenary Theater to ’90s hits such as “Semi-Charmed Life” and “How’s It Going...
When the song’s bridge comes though, Daughters truly shines. As Feist’s voice diminishes for an instrumental break, so does the camera’s dedication to keeping her in the frame. Overhead lights flicker and spin like lighthouses—with every illumination, we get only still, wide shots of the action. Through the strobing we see Feist’s body mimicking the rotation of the light beams that surround her, and despite the confusion, we can still manage to make out the tectonic plates that are her wondrous cheekbones. Hers...
...Valkin won the first singles match of the day, streaking to a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Zach Pasanen. Ermakov finished next, dropping the second set but capturing the other two in emphatic fashion, closing out a 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 win with an overhead smash.Nguyen, playing at No. 2 singles for the first time in several weeks, alternated between dominance and futility—combining line-clipping groundstrokes with a series of double faults and missed volleys—en route to a three-set victory that gave Harvard its fifth point...