Word: subways
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Thankfully, there’s no decorating wound a trip to Bed, Bath and Beyond won’t heal, and my apartment transformed from uninhabitable cave to posh Midtown pad in no time. With a bus stop nearby and the subway station only a 10-minute walk away, I was ready to settle in to summer and explore my new home...
...contemporary shows, video is the dominant medium here. Among other endless loops, visitors can watch Zhang Peili's triptych featuring tight close-ups of a man cutting food on a plate and audibly chewing it. In Cui Xiuwen's three-hour Metro No. 2, a woman on a Beijing subway peels bits of skin off her lips as other passengers come and go. For more excitement, there's Yang Zhenzhong's 922 Grains of Rice, in which a rooster and a hen peck away at 922 grains of rice while male and female voices tally his and her scores. Best...
When I was still too young to know which letters or numbers had been designated to represent the different subway lines or where the tracks went, the el was a riddle. At the time, I never needed to take the train; my mother would drive me the five minutes to elementary school, and I wouldn’t have to meet up with friends in the city until high school, years later. So the thick, tan-painted pillars along Jamaica Avenue held up not only train tracks, but also a mysterious world—one literally parallel...
Alexander J. Blenkinsopp ’05, a social studies concentrator in Eliot House, is a Crimson editor. He’ll spend more than 15 hours on the subway this week...
...RESIGNED. RICHARD LI, 36; as chief executive officer of Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. (PCCW); in Hong Kong. Li will be replaced by Jack So, currently chairman of Hong Kong's subway operator MTR Corp. PCCW acquired the city's former phone monopoly Cable & Wireless HKT for $28.5 billion in 2000. Li, son of Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, will remain chairman of PCCW, which has debts of $4 billion...