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Because of this, McPhee’s journalism can be challenging. His writing has a crisp physicality and attention to detail: he is fond of lists, and he does not cut corners. It is easy to see how a younger writer, more enamored of punch and cleverness, might sigh at a passage like the following from “Under the Cloth;” “They cross the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey and go north on the Palisades Parkway to Rockefeller Lookout in Englewood Cliffs.” The cacophony of place names does nothing...

Author: By Abigail B. Lind, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: John McPhee’s ‘Silk Parachute’ Is an Uplifting Triumph of Style | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

Cheap and crumbling spaces, however, often attract a city's most creative people. A vibrant artist community has settled into the decrepit industrial landscape around the canal, and some of its members are breathing a sigh of relief in the wake of the EPA decision. High-end-condo development "presents a danger of a different sort," says Tamara Pittman, who works at the Proteus Gowanus art gallery. Pittman says she knows the canal needs to be cleaned up but still can't help admiring its "beautiful neglect." The artists who have been attracted to the area's preserved detritus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Brooklyn | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

When Christo Schultz converted his second chance at match point, a tired Harvard squad breathed a sigh of relief...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Close Match Goes Harvard's Way | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

...House of the Hare can be described as “Good, thank you very much.” Leverett is a solid House with many benefits to be had, and freshmen should feel a small jolt of excitement and breathe a hefty sigh of relief at getting sorted into this above average House...

Author: By Derrick Asiedu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Housing Market Reviews: Leverett House | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

After stepping away from the door and breathing a sigh of relief that the beeping had abated, he realized that he had left his phone charging in his room. So, he did what any rational student would do in his situation: he updated his Facebook status. “Timo Kim is locked in the library,” it read...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Locked in the Library | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

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