Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that other environment through windows. Currier forces diners to confront the otherness of the external world by centering the dining environment around a fabricated version of the natural world, a bizarre oasis (several artificial-looking plants and a fountain). It is an amateur echo of the Four Seasons' Autumn Room (where tables are centered around a "grove" of cherry blossoms and a reflecting pool), and the tangential similarity to Japanese gardens recalls the austere asceticism of the Seasons as well as Quincy's slightly more Orientalized vision. The effort can be soothing when the fountain is gurgling, but it mostly...
...columns that mark off the "oasis" from the rest of the dining area--unifying the separating elements of the space. (This is opposed to Quincy, where the separating elements are unified by a similar "ribbed" design but where the salad bar juts obtrusively into the dining space.) The entire room is flooded with light from a skylight that does wonderfully incorporate the natural world into this unnatural place, and a few scattered pictures of other parts of Harvard on the walls do also remind diners of the world outside this far-flung commensal oasis...
...Every parent should see the list of people who lived in their child's room in the past, and think about the fact that a hundred years from now, some other parent will be handed a similar list and might say, 'Gee! Mary Jones lived in this room!'" Lewis wrote...
...Frank McCourt is a storyteller. He has an accent seemingly unaffected by a half-century in the United States, a brogue so rich and textured that it fills the room completely and envelops his listeners. He cracks jokes--smart, pointed and wickedly funny. He talks about "long-legged Episcopalians" with "apocalyptic bosoms," the seven deadly sins, and the "explosive creativity" of the American adolescent. (His plan for exterminating Saddam Hussein is to "drop 1,000 American Adolescents with boom boxes in Baghdad or Teheran.") And he talks about how taking attendance at McKee Vocational and Technical High School sounded like...
When was the last time you talked about sharing a room with someone who is gay? If sexual orientation has come up lately, it was more likely over dinner, when you and your friends analyzed the political implications of a policy on gays in the military...