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Even human disasters are transfigured into something inhumanly beautiful. The adulterous executive leaves his windowless bedroom to seek aid, and enters his duplex office to find it on fire--huge velveteen curtains, bargello chairs, plush carpeting. His clothing catches fire as well. We lose sight of the human perspective as the director shifts into slow motion and we watch only a vaguely human figure on fire stagger through a room, framed by flames as floor, ceiling and walls burn. (Early in the film there are a couple of graphic shots of charred skin, but--after these few nauseating moments...
...Szell pronounced Philharmonic Hall, the first building in Manhattan's Lincoln Center, a disaster. "Tear it down and start over!" he cried. But that was unthinkable. The house had everything money ($19.7 million) could buy. It was an austere, stately structure of travertine and glass. There were comfortable plush chairs and, most significant musically, 106 panels suspended from the ceiling to diffuse sound waves for maximum - it was hoped - acoustical excellence. They did not do the job. The sound was dry, weak in bass, lacking in focus...
...election represented the "last chance" for democracy in Venezuela.* What he meant was that Venezuela was in grave danger of splitting into two an tagonistic nations - one rich, the other hopelessly poor. One of these nations consists of a foreign-educated elite in Caracas, accustomed to air-conditioned Mercedes, plush skyscraper offices and country-club amenities. The other Venezuela includes more than 800,000 mi grants who have left the country's poor rural areas to make their homes in the tar-paper shacks that cling to the hills around the capital...
...acoustics virtuoso. Harris' secret, if it can be called that, is to stick as closely as possible to classic European models like Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinssaal. That means a rectangular shape, plenty of wood and plaster, no concrete or vinyl, and a minimum of carpeting and plush upholstery on chairs. Harris has made his chairs of oak and carefully tested foam cushions. He has even installed individual lockers in access corridors to encourage dowagers to leave their fur coats outside the music-making area...
...other places are the field and into the laboratory. Many trace the demise of teaching and the displacement of faculty instruction by graduate student teaching to the "Plush Sixties" when millions of dollars in government funds became available for basic research. Whether the preference for conducting research was motivated by need to establish grounds for tenure or desire to do work in one's own specialty, scholars were offered the resources to indulge themselves...