Word: theaters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Undergraduates had claimed all 520 of the free movie tickets by yesterday afternoon, according to CEB Chair Kevin M. Mee ’10, who said he expected a packed theater...
...This is unusual but not unheard of. A few years ago the architects Diller, Scofidio & Renfro provided the same kind of glass-walled backdrop for the theater they designed as part of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, and it's worked well there, though one factor may be that it looks out on a water view that's calmer and more predictable than a cityscape. The Wyly is also a very flexible cavity, with movable banks of seats and balconies that can slide in and out or fly up and disappear. Even the proscenium can be raised and lowered...
...open to everything and anything. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten a line that I’ve used in a story, or even started a story with, that came from just eavesdropping. Just listening to people in a theater before a show, at the student center, a coffee shop. You are always on the job. Grace Paley, a writer whom I adored, advised something else: “Keep a low overhead.” But that’s to worry about after graduation I guess...
Over the past twenty years, Ho, an accomplished baritone saxophonist, has dreamed up inventive compositions, theater productions, multicultural ensembles, and literary works which fuse the African-American roots of the jazz tradition with his Chinese-American heritage and his commitment to social justice...
...potentially draining funds away from economies that are still badly in need of investment. Or if too many governments turn off the stimulus tap too quickly, global demand could fall sharply. "An unruly rush to the exits is no better in a global financial crisis than in a crowded theater," wrote Adam Posen, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, in the Financial Times in September. (See pictures of retailers that have gone out of business...