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...that happened in 2007: even though tax credits for the Toyota Prius had expired in late 2006, sales actually increased the following year by 69%. (Similarly, prerecession sales of the Lexus LS 600h L far exceeded projections, even though some had wrongly predicted that green-friendly consumers wouldn't shell out well over $100,000 for a hybrid...
...Futurism itself was pretty much over by 1915 - the end point of the show. Briton Christopher Nevinson painted vorticist soldiers, Italian Gino Severini created some fractured war scenes, like Red Cross Train Passing a Village (1915), and the Russian Kazimir Malevich's figures seem constructed out of shell cases. This show is a chance to appreciate these artists and their youthful enthusiasm, before the first mechanized war crushed both...
...building, which introduce light directly into some of the galleries through a scrim that can be raised on overcast days. The window walls also admit some powerful views of Millennium Park, including a huge vista of the billowing steel panels of Frank Gehry's wonderful Pritzker band shell, which comes at you like a breaker on the beach at Santa Monica...
...goes without saying that Gehry's pinwheeling band shell in Millennium Park couldn't be more unlike Piano's firm Cartesian box. Seeing them across from each other makes you think of those neighborhoods in Rome where the Baroque rubs shoulders with the classical, but with the difference that the Gehry and the Piano were built just a few years apart. Now they face each other as signs of the immense range of architectural practice these days - and of the fact that there's more than one road to the peak...
...place for a 47-year old ugly duckling whose sole talent was obscured by her plain and aging appearance. Though the taunts of sixth grade bullies still echoed in the back of her mind, the passing of her 97-year-old mother pushed her to peek out of her shell for just one more, all-or-nothing performance. As Susan Boyle walked onto the stage of “Britain’s Got Talent,” she brushed off the laughter of the audience with unassuming familiarity. What neither she nor they knew was that this duckling...