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...they hadn't been invited to El Bulli by Documenta, the Flgels would have been set back nearly $500 for dinner. When it was over, Franziska, an architect, and Gerhard, a civil engineer, had succumbed to Adri's peculiar magic. "This is a new way to create taste," said Gerhard. "When you're here, it's clear that it's art." Perhaps. But by the time the Flgels worked their way through those 33 dishes, such abstract questions faded into insignificance. They filed out after midnight with childlike smiles of wonder on their faces. For Adri, their response...
...they hadn't been invited to El Bulli, the Flögels' dinner there would have set them back nearly $500. By the end of their meal, Franziska, an architect, and Gerhard, a civil engineer, had succumbed to Adrià's peculiar magic. "I was astonished the whole time I was eating," says Francisca. Her husband added: "This is a new way to create taste. When you're here, it's clear that it's art." Perhaps. But by the time Adrià's diners have worked their way through those 33 dishes, such abstract questions tend to fade into...
...believe that it is a myth that there is a peculiar relationship between Islam and violence,” Richardson said...
...little bit hesitantly, a little bit digressively. He's not ramrodding us into submission, not force-feeding us a lot of big melodramatic scenes. Stuff keeps happening in this movie - some of it fairly bloody - but always within the context of its own ideas of carefully-controlled, if very peculiar, sense of normalcy...
...Since everything happening in public on these city streets was fair game, it didn't take long for web users to find peculiar and embarrassing images that raised questions about the ethics of the project. Stephen Chau, product manager for Google Maps, says this is less an attempt to infringe on people's privacy than the company's attempt to advance its core mission:" At Google, we take privacy very seriously," Chau says. "Street View only features imagery taken on public property and is not real time. This imagery is no different from what any person can readily capture...