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...scissors chomp into the metalicized surface of the cardboard. Two or three snips later a rhomboid shape drops free. Fingers pick it up and start crimping and bending it, propping it against the toy-sized model building. Eventually, it is taped to the little construct (think of it as a three-dimensional sketch) and the architect, Frank Gehry, starts musing about what it does - and does not do - for his design. By and large, he seems, tentatively, to like its effect more than he dislikes it. For the moment, it stays...
...Alone with Pollack, he fills us in on his background: Humble beginnings in a Jewish family in Toronto, where he liked to build little toy cities on the living room floor, and where a teacher suggested at an early age that architecture might be something he?d like to explore. After that the Gehrys moved to Los Angeles, where he drove a truck for a couple of years (once delivering a kitchen suite to Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, who took a shine to the kid) and where he eventually enrolled at the USC architecture school. There he somehow managed...
...turned on its own people: "On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh the old slogans of idealism and hatred: 'Up the I.R.A.' and 'Informers Beware' ... British command announced that children playing with toy guns run the risk of being shot. The reason for the statement was that children in Ulster these days sometimes carry real guns ... The backroom bombmakers rarely venture out, leaving the dirty work to carriers, most of them inexperienced teenagers. Six have died in bombing accidents this winter ... A strange mixture...
...narrative, as Carroll’s own stage version and the Disney movie do. Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus’ script devotes a single act to each.The first few scenes of the play are performed in front of a closed curtain by paper figures in a small toy theater as the endearingly cheeky Cheshire Cat (Rowan W. Dorin ’07) narrates. The live performance begins when the paper Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole in the toy stage, and the actual Alice (Sara L. Bartel ’06) stumbles out of the bottom...
...tend to sleep through the night. Nate was always fine after he fell asleep, but oh, those endless routines leading up to bedtime! For eight years, he insisted on sleeping in the same red T shirt with a yellow taxi on it, his large toy keyboard piano laid across his chest, his stuffed animal placed on a chair facing him and the radio playing a 24-hour news station...