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Despite the many enjoyable performances, though, The Happy Few still feels somewhat unpolished and underrehearsed. Longer scenes seem as if they could benefit from an extra week of preparation: The final scene of act one particularly drags...
...departures. As a result, the building possesses a dynamic interface between the passengers and their transport. This subtle bending of rigid shapes lends their models a palpable warmth, as realized in their Maria Colonel apartment block designed in the mid-1970s in Seville. The outer structure is angular and somewhat abrasive, but the courtyard within is organic and comforting, having been constructed in the shape of a kidney or an artist’s palette...
Fong is half Chinese, half Japanese, and his family has been in the U.S. for many generations. He terms his views “ultra-liberal” and adds that he knows they are somewhat idealistic and come from privilege. But he contends that Harvard, too, is a place of privilege. “If this were somewhere else where people of non-white skin colors had trouble being recognized and being respected—these are issues that are not so prevalent in our community...
...first 17 years of my life things followed a normal, if somewhat predictable, pattern. During the school year I would stay in England, where I’d be the local boy with the bizarrely foreign parents. During the summer I would head back to America, where I’d be the foreign boy with bizarrely local parents. And then, a year and a half ago, I ended up in Cambridge. Not in that “other Cambridge,” surrounded by my English friends and pints of deliciously warm, frothy beer, but in this...
...England, where indoor malls really would be useful to protect shoppers from the incessant rain, there are none. The English will probably have discovered them by 2020 but, heck, they’ve only just stumbled across toothpaste, so there are no guarantees. Now I have cooled down somewhat as the novelty wears off—and Channel 7 no longer airs “Jeopardy!” at 7:30—but I still get a tremendously illicit thrill out of eating good pizza at midnight when you can scarcely buy it at noon in London...