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...above the cafeteria. The school built an extension housing a new library, which features a 250-gallon saltwater fish tank that mental health professionals advised would have a calming effect on some students. That's also partly why the sterile grayness of some hallways was painted over with tranquil pastel colors. And that's also why the blaring fire alarm was replaced with one DeAngelis likens to British police sirens...
...thing makes me wonder whether the critics are actually sitting in the same theater I am. In fact, the show is notably lacking in sparkles, and garish is just about the last word I would use to describe the subtle and airy visual design. A gorgeous color palette of pastel blues, oranges and pinks. Translucent, lighter-than-air panels, billowing plastic waves, scepter-like deep-sea sculptures, which manage to convey not just one undersea world but a host of neighborhoods within that world. Costumes that manage to be both lush and witty - the exaggerated, bunched-crinoline hoop skirts...
Kenya's second-largest city, however, is hardly a ghost town. Locals bustle about pastel-colored shops crammed along sandy avenues, as brightly painted taxis cruised under palm trees in the sticky heat. But foreign faces are nowhere to be seen. On the northern tip of another of Mombasa's deserted beaches, Masai tribesmen with glittering bracelets draped on their arms unsuccessfully tried to hawk their jewelry to the rare visitor passing by. Curio sellers bemoaned their lack of customers. "We regret that we ever had elections," says Joseph Mutie, stretched out under racks of kaleidoscopic cloths billowing...
Once they arrive, the first stop is often Warsaw's old market square, or Rynek Starego Miasta, which was gutted by the Nazis during the Warsaw uprising and rebuilt from scratch in the 1950s. A pastel-tinted masterpiece of reconstruction, the townscape fools most visitors and provides a gorgeous backdrop for the square's many outdoor cafes, art galleries and shops. The square is home to Fukier, the city's finest restaurant, whose sumptuous decor and attentive staff have been enjoyed by Presidents George Bush and Jacques Chirac--not, mind you, at the same time. Traditional Polish sour soup...
...also a lifestyle that centers itself around a return to childhood. As such, it tends not only towards adorably cliché graphic tees or knit mittens, but also towards diminution. Though the movement has existed since the early ’90s, twee kids’ newly pastel iPods have shrunk to bite-size proportions, and their jeans are getting skinnier by the hour.Tweesters therefore face the dilemma of fitting into this lifestyle (and its accompanying apparel) while also allowing themselves to indulge in the sweets of their childhood. Luckily, there is a solution, and it comes in the form...