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...like a Hong Kong action film, but every take has to be perfect. It's being done live, in a theater at Las Vegas' MGM Grand, so any misstep could injure a performer and kill the flow of the drama. Moreover, the battlefield is a large platform that has been tilted 80°, a nearly vertical position. That gives the audience a unique, God's-eye view of the action, but it's hell for the performers, who must fight to keep their balance--or off they plunge into the void...
...HAVE SAID YOU ARE HAPPIER THAN YOU'VE EVER BEEN. WHY? I felt dirty before [as a cigarette executive]. Now I feel good. I have set the record straight. It has given me a platform. People call and ask me for help. I've gained an immeasurable degree of wisdom. I know I can probably withstand anything...
...history of architecture is filled with visions and then revisions. As each generation of architects corrects the utopias of the one before them, razor-edged towers are followed by biomorphic houses and sky-platform cities give way to clustered yurts. There are lots of these heady innovations in "Archilab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City," the highly entertaining exhibition now at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, where it runs through March 13. Organized jointly by the Mori and the FRAC Centre Collection in Orl?ans, France, it brings together more than a half-century of attempts to utterly...
Zuckerberg said that if the Beirut tournament had been a success, he was considering a Halo tournament, pitting college students against each other in the popular video game using thefacebook.com as the platform...
...Even our platform needs to ask for more. Democrats have pursued a strategy that asks as little as possible while offering as much as possible. But the Democrats could learn something from the trend in organized religion. The denominations that succeed are the ones that ask for sacrifice, the ones that are difficult. When he introduced his economic policies, John Kerry used to start off by letting the audience know that he didn’t favor taking from the rich to give to the poor. His programs, he claimed, were all about the middle class. Kerry didn?...