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...that it's a 21st century dream factory. Two vertical posts that rise from the roof may bring to mind industrial chimneys, but they're actually electronic signboards. Words and images shoot upward like the flames of bygone furnaces. The Guthrie's exterior walls are covered in dark-blue steel meant to recall grain silos. But the metal is imprinted with images from past Guthrie productions, scenes with great performers like Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. "There are 'ghosts' on the walls," says Nouvel. "These are the ancestors of the place." Nouvel has a shaved head and a bearish silhouette...
...arrival of Bryan Singer's Superman Returns is exciting news to three groups: the very young, the perpetually adolescent and those cautious folk in the film industry who believe that the best way to make a box-office bundle is to clone the old Man of Steel story for a new generation of consumers...
...faster we rush, the more time is left afterward to steal. To satisfy this desire, McDonald's has announced a major redesign of its restaurants, swapping out the polymer chairs and melamine tables for cushioned fabrics, stainless-steel tables and plasma-screen televisions. By mimicking the look and feel of our own living rooms, McDonald's will now encourage lingering. (The line between lingering and loitering has not yet been determined...
Pittsburgh is its Exhibit A. Once hailed as America's Iron City, Pittsburgh has gone from a manufacturing stronghold to a service-dominated economy, a shift that is evident in its abundance of converted mills. The Homestead Grays Bridge, near the site of the famous 1892 steel-mill strike considered by many to be the birthplace of the labor movement, now overlooks a Filene's Basement and a Barnes & Noble, instead of the towering smokestacks that once defined the city skyline. The first Justice for Janitors initiative began there in 1985. The campaign sparked an 18-month standoff in which...
...Solving a crossword takes brains and patience. Solving it in a few minutes, standing on a stage filling the spaces on a large board, with hundreds of people watching, demands poise, steel nerves and a killer instinct. These requirements strictly limit the number of serious competitors at the Stamford stampede. The same people tend to be finalists; in a 13-year stretch from 1988 to 2000, the top three slots were filled by only six players...