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Today water no longer pours through the New Amsterdam's ceiling dome, once again surrounded by a thick garland of red berries and hydrangea wreaths, blue-glazed peacocks and 10-ft.-long angels. The work involved many subtle calibrations. The architect, Hugh Hardy, aimed for a final product that would return the theater to its original state yet allow it to look as if it had been gently lived in for 30 years or so. "There is," he observes, "an inherent conflict in preservation between conservation, which means you keep everything that's original and try not to have...
This book is excellent reading for anyone who rejects Wallace Stevens' distaste for "the dreadful sundry of this world." And for anyone with a thick skin and an acute sense of irony. There are lots of laughs-out-loud here. But don't forget to meet the author on his own terms. As the colony rules say, "YOU MUST BE NUDE...
...beautiful: Williams is a master of capturing images in music. The middle movements were tricky, with difficult rhythmic passages and unpredictable dynamics. The last movement, Dathi--the prayer for the tree which exercised authority over the Poets--was especially memorable, with an evocative melody rising out of the thick orchestral tissue...
...affection again. During one Father's Day visit from his children, he relates the unbearable feeling of being sealed in his bubble: "Theophile, my son, is calmly sitting there, his face 20 inches from my own, and I, his father, do not have the simple right to touch his thick hair...to hold tight his warm little body...Suddenly, that fact begins killing...
...Department of Health and Human Services, which the government uses to determine how much money Penn can recoup from each federal grant to cover the overall cost of operating the university and which TIME acquired under the Freedom of Information Act. In a stack of paper as thick as a large-type Bible, Penn laid itself bare, disclosing everything from the $208,795 allocated to cover the cost of operating the university president's $1.4 million, 5,500-sq.-ft. house to the volume of water and sewage that flows through College Hall, university headquarters...