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...restaurant, with its aquamarine walls and two cases displaying Skala's fantastic mechanical constructions, has the feel of tropical-sea shallows. The downstairs performance hall's orange stucco walls sprout giant polypores and bear soft bas-reliefs of such things as a nymph and an ear, evoking a dream sequence. And if you look hard enough inside one of the bars, you may even spot a palm-sized wall opening that reveals a secret crypt. Now that's underground. tel: (420-2) 96 330 911; www.palacakropolis.cz
...Skala spent five years outfitting Akropolis with his eclectic vision that examines the mystery in ordinary objects and spaces. The restaurant, with its aquamarine walls and two cases displaying Skala's fantastic mechanical constructions, has the feel of tropical-sea shallows. The downstairs performance hall's orange stucco walls sprout giant polypores and bear soft bas-reliefs of such things as a nymph and an ear, evoking a dream sequence. And if you look hard enough inside one of the bars, you may even spot a palm-sized wall opening that reveals a secret crypt. Now that's underground...
...many ways, the Dean campaign was a quintessential Harvard experience. So many Harvard students find their purpose in the clubs that sprout up every year on our campus or in the life aspirations that they formed long before they got to Cambridge. So many think of themselves as activists (or premeds or future businessmen) before they think of themselves as students. College life—everything from late night discussions with roommates to pissing on John Harvard’s foot—can seem like a distraction. Harvard often feels like a bus station, filled with brilliant people...
...impact, retrieving his daughter from her nearby middle school, watching as the second tower collapses - the later strips are more abstract. Spiegelman laments what he sees as the co-opting of September 11 to justify further polarizing acts of war. "Why did those provincial American flags have to sprout out of the embers of Ground Zero? Why not a globe," asks the author. Unlike much 9/11-related art, including many comix (see carets above for TIME.comix coverage), No Towers takes exceptional interest in the political consequences of a political act that is often dumbed down to a mere "attack on freedom...
Increasingly, it seems, the gray hairs that parents once got from fretting over why Johnny can't read are now just as likely to sprout from anxiety about why he can't behave. "When a lot of parents see how their kids interact with playmates and other adults, they're horrified," says Denise Honaker, who taught Kevin and 14 others in the Polite Is Right class she held after school at Cornerstone Elementary in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif...