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...loss. The brain is essentially lazy, and when asked to do something over and over, it invariably finds the easiest way. Doing things differently challenges the brain. Brush your teeth with the nondominant hand or take a shower with your eyes closed, and suddenly you're not on automatic pilot...
...sophomore VES concentrator is engaged in a much more exciting project at the momentoshe has been commissioned to write a pilot for a risqu high school drama series slated to air on the Fox Network next year at the earliest. And although the project was originally the brainchild of a Fox producer, Rosow, a prize-winning young playwright, infuses it with a unique, artistic flavor as original as her choices at Leverettis salad...
...Rosow, herself the product of a similar Los Angeles private high school, has tried to incorporate the drug use, sexual experiences, party scene and rave life that she sees as the reality for many Generation X high school students. By ending each 15-minute segment of the pilot in a party atmosphere, she says she aims to emphasize the two playing grounds-school life and party life-where the high school experience unfolds. Rosow openly admits that much of her script is drawn from personal experience...
...iSilent Nighti and iJames Dean,i which earned her top awards at the Rocky Mountain Young Playwrights Festival and the California Young Playwrights Festival, Rosow was spotted for this project by a high school classmateis father who was working at Fox. Although she signed a contract to write the pilot in the summer of 1998, management changes at the network forced her project to be put on the back burner...
...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 and special-effects designers, who also think about things like how curved and folding surfaces respond to real pressures. For their radically fashioned New York Presbyterian Church in Sunnyside, the Los Angeles-based architects Greg Lynn, Doug Garofalo...