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...all’s well that ends well—the Mouse King is killed and the Nutcracker prevails. He takes Clara to the Enchanted Forest ruled by the Snow Queen and King, danced by Lia Cirio and Pavel Gurevich with wonderful virtuosity and panache. The sets by Helen Pond and Herbert Senn were well worth the price of admission and generated audible awe at the rise of the curtain for the second act. The second act might be the one realm in the ballet trajectory that is familiar to almost everyone. Anyone can hum along to the Russian dance...
...remains one of my favorite Harvard memories. I went up to a friend’s house in Vermont with six other Harvard students, only one of whom I had previously met. After a week of toboggan races, barefoot ventures through the snow from the sauna to the ice pond, and impromptu guitar compositions by burning embers at twilight, I came out with a new group of friends I might never have met otherwise...
...went crazy over it) and Paris dominated haute couture (while New York industrialized it). "Let's work together," enjoined the French architect Le Corbusier. "Let's build a bridge across the Atlantic." Leading artists and designers of the day took up the challenge, hopping back and forth across the pond to create paintings, posters, buildings, furniture, fashions, dinnerware, interiors, jewelry and luxury liners...
...freeze with the "Frosty Fridays" package. For a two-night weekend stay, you'll pay the standard rate of $295 for Saturday, but your Friday room rate will be whatever the temperature was that night at 5 p.m. The package also includes two tickets and skate rentals to Frog Pond on Boston Common, or a tour on the Old Town Trolley. Warm up with complimentary hot chocolate for two at the hotel's brasserie. Through March; includes parking. 120 Huntington Avenue, Boston...
Beyond cutting down waste, says Colangelo, the hospital also attempts to wield the "power of aesthetics to heal," with musical performances, a koi pond filled with 70 koi in the atrium, a "healing garden" and a nursing floor that wraps around a waterfall and patio. All patient rooms also have large windows that provide views of nature and lots of natural light - which cuts electricity costs and is associated with high staff morale and better patient outcomes. "Our green efforts are done under the premise that we have two patients, the environment and the ill patient," says Colangelo...