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...slice sashimi or shuck oysters to order. Then go grab a cold, dry Riesling and a couple of plastic cups from the on-site wine shop before finding a picnic table on the dockside. The best part? This exquisite feast should come in for less than $30 a head. PIER: You want fresh? You got it. Fish at this Rose Bay restaurant, tel: (61-2) 9327 6561, are killed by the Japanese practice of ike jime (or driving a point through a fish's brain to kill it instantaneously, minimizing stress to the creature and so optimizing the flavor...
...There are, of course, limitations. For instance, as I stood on the sunlight-drenched pier at Huntington Beach, California, I couldn't see a whole lot on the LCD. I was forced to use the optical viewfinder. Also, in low lighting, you'll get a clearer picture through the eyepiece than you will on the LCD. Nevertheless, it's a great help for people who want an upgrade but enjoy the LCD convenience of current point-and-shoot cameras...
...existential themes of obsession, uncertainty and free will, stretching the limits of literary form (he was a fan of multiple endings) and dreaming scenes into existence (Woman, the Victorian love saga that became a hit film starring Meryl Streep, started with his recurring dream of a woman on a pier). Uneasy with his commercial success, he lived largely as a recluse, once saying he could never tell his stories adequately, as "[no] art or science can describe the whole reality of nature...
...when he was a recent arrival in Hollywood, writing scripts for MGM. Nine pages later, he's not only describing the Marx Brothers jumping all over Somerset Maugham, "screaming like devils," but also watching Aldous Huxley and Charlie Chaplin singing old London music-hall songs on the Santa Monica Pier. No wonder the unchanging center of Isherwood's life, the Hindu Vedantist teacher Swami Prabhavananda, asked his worldly disciple to bring the Duke of Windsor to his Hollywood temple: Isherwood was the rare Hollywood Hindu who did justice to both the adjective and the noun...
...designed by Jess R. Burkle ’06, complements these seamless performances. Chairs line either side of the Ex and the actors perform in between them. Brown packing boxes serve as the building blocks of the set, and Jamie and Catherine transform them into couches, a bed, a pier, or whatever else they need to revisit their memories. Behind them, a series of photographs of the couple slide up and down floor-to-ceiling wires, and shield the accompaniment. Lastly, two hanging windows face either side of the audience—a detail which fits a show that feels...