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...thing, Elliot is running an international business, not mixing martinis for the master. He won't say how profitable Quintessentially is. But since he started the company in 2000 with two friends, it has grown to around 1,000 employees, with 45 offices around the world-including jet-set pit stops like Milan, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. Quintessentially is also expanding into new territory, with a sommelier service and a luxury real-estate locator. "I spoke with a member the other day who just used us to sell his house," Elliot says...
...College Theatre, which took the place of the old Hasty Pudding Theatre on Holyoke Street this October, provides one such outlet. The 272-seat theatre features state-of-the-art lighting, a mechanized orchestra pit, and a rehearsal and performance space as large as its main stage. Its location, Faust observed in remarks at the Theatre’s opening, “literally and figuratively made arts more central at the University...
...Ginsberg in Howl is an animal Dmitri leaping headfirst into the pit of self-abasement. Sex, like dope, is jut a symbol. Masochism itself, a mean. Howl succumbs to now Hum 6 readings; it is like those poems we wrote for high school literary clubs, before we came to Harvard. But Ginsberg and his fellows mean it. And if IT means homosexuality, dope, jazz, or death—then these are the instruments...
Standing on a wooden platform located deep inside his open-pit mine, Pat Crisby, a plainspoken Newfoundlander, makes a startling observation. "We move enough dirt to fill the SkyDome in 48 hours," says Crisby, a fiftyish manager at Syncrude Canada Ltd., a company that is the Incredible Hulk of North America's biggest and richest resource deposit: Alberta's oil sands. The idea of filling the 60,000-seat home of the Toronto Blue Jays (now called Rogers Centre) with sticky, bitumen-laced soil from the Aurora North mine in a weekend is mind-boggling. But it puts the business...
...sadistic, systematic corruption in the municipal government, the police department and the medical establishment of 1920s Los Angeles - that has the novelty of being virtually unknown today. The script, by TV writer-producer J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Jeremiah), juggles elements of L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, The Snake Pit and any number of serial-killer thrillers. But at its center are the heartache and heroic resolve of a woman who has lost the one person she loves most and is determined to find him, dead or alive, against all obstacles the authorities place in her way. In that sense...