Word: spaciousness
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Toscanini's spacious shop is definitivewarehouse-chic. Wooden beams line the ceiling, thewalls are unadorned brick and flowers sit in glassbottles on every table. In the window next door tothe shop, we could watch the ice cream-makingprocess at work. And with single scoops at $1.35and double scoops at $2.14, Toscanini's is highlycost-efficient--that is, if you don't factor inthe 85-cent T fare...
From a leather chair in his spacious office in Belgrade, with a tin of his beloved cigarillos within reach, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic strives to keep the war at arm's length. In a rare interview, perhaps granted to deflect the blame for the carnage in Bosnia-Herzegovina, he contended that Yugoslavia's bloody dissolution stems solely from the secessionist demands of the other republics. "All processes in the contemporary world tend toward integration," he said. "Nationalistic tendencies are against that general flow, that big river, that Mississippi." Confused? There is this clarifying coda: "In Serbia nationalists...
...spacious room that overlooks Weld Hall to one side and Tercentenary Theater to the other, where bound leather books, line the shelves, the clock is another relic from the past, symbolic of the University's-- and the library's--age and history...
...such housing. The prospect of poor people nearby makes suburbanites shudder. Yet the same self-interest that has made them turn away from the cities may eventually force them to recognize that the larger health of America requires the cities to be rescued. Even in a nation as spacious as the U.S., people are running out of places to escape...
Eight years later, at the invitation of Gerard Mortier, director of the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the young American replaced Maurice Bejart as resident choreographer for Belgium's national opera house. The deal included doubling the size of the company to 24, spacious rehearsal studios, production budgets of up to $1 million for new works, and most important, the opportunity to work with live musicians. The Belgian capital's reputation for good food and great beer didn't hurt either...