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The spectacular staging of Pippin makes the production-credits list a roll call of honor. Tony Walton's scenery functions with elegant heraldic humor. Patricia Zipprodt's costumes are eye-blinking dazzlers, as are Jules Fisher's lighting effects. But the star of stars is Choreographer-Director...
It is not only people that are upwardly mobile in New York City. So, it would seem, are buildings. For years, the 102-story Empire State Building dominated the skyline, tallest of the tall in a city of proud skyscrapers. Then, last year, the twin towers of the World Trade...
Once, the skyscraper was the symbol of America's soaring ambition. Now it is becoming a new addition to the list of environmental dirty words. The criticisms range from dehumanization of cities to changing of weather patterns. Only Washington, D.C., has won the fight against height; it bans any...
Because the building recognizes the facts of Boston, most of its original critics now praise it. Yet other critics still complain that it will increase the densities of both people and autos. Since these are problems common to all skyscrapers, they raise the question of whether any more such supertowers...
What would make muons so useful as messengers is the very characteristic that sometimes annoys experimental physicists: their ability to penetrate barriers. Radio waves-especially the increasingly popular microwaves, which require line-of-sight transmission between relay towers-are essentially blocked by buildings, hills and other obstructions. Thus the ghostly...