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...creature comforts is all the more disturbing. We can't get enough news about tombs discovered in Egypt and terra-cotta warriors unearthed in China, yet the good people of Boston now see the Green Monster in Fenway not as the Great Wall it is, but as some big slab of Sheetrock that can be transferred to a new site with better access, easier parking, more seats, and, oh yes, more corporate suites...
...make a story out of it." It may be a massive mass: director Tony Scott shot 148 hours of footage for Lebenzon to play with. "My job," he says, "was to find the best two hours' worth." For a good editor, all that exposed film is like a slab of marble--marbles, really--from which he makes a coherent sculpture...
...fierce energy of passive aggression drives--and explains--adolescence; in its grandiose moments it pulverizes empires. In the Soviet Union hundreds of millions of passive aggressives created a vast, vodka-soaked culture of subversive inefficiency, sly refusal and covert nonproduction that ultimately brought down the stolid slab of Marxism-Leninism...
...tear down Massachusetts Hall and put up an office slab in its place? Eighteenth-century buildings are not very efficient, after all. It should be clear that what is at issue here is not just the destruction of a single room. What is at issue is the imminent loss of an integral element of this ancient institution's heritage...
Toward dusk we reached Jindrichovice, the place where the truck journey had ended and the long walk begun. The village lay quiet in the rain. In its midst, just below the church, we came across a marble slab with a gilded, five-pointed star and the Czech inscription in eternal memory of those who died in the second world war. The little monument looked new-apparently erected after communism fell in 1989. The words embraced all: winners and losers, soldiers and civilians, the innocent and the guilty. To Lubos and me, men whose people had been at war with...