Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Auburn St. could have remained open space in this crowded community, it was obviously not to be, considering the booming value of Harvard Square real estate. And the final plans drawn up by Harvard and approved by the community are not so bad--certainly they are better than the twin 20-story towers once proposed by the former owner...
...both University and community that if they couldn't agree on some development plan, some other developer would erect something worse in the future. The leading candidate was Louis DiGiovanni, who sold the land to the University. Harvard used a buy-back agreement with the developer--who once wanted twin 20-story towners on the site--as leverage in their discussions with the community; University officials admitted privately, that they were not happy at the prospect of losing control of the southwest corner of the Square...
Before DiGiovanni sold the property--part of his extensive holdings in the Square--two years ago, he had reportedly considered constructing twin high-rise apartment buildings in the site...
...line between employer and employee is hazy in Prato, and the town's artisans easily cross it. Twin brothers Enrico and Franco Rosati resigned from a family business in 1967 and founded their own company to produce carded wool. The twins' $24,000 investment has blossomed into annual sales of $40 million. Francesco and Rosa Palmieri moved north from Sicily 35 years ago and became itinerant clothing peddlers. Now they and their four children, with their spouses, own and work at a family firm whose sales have soared in ten years from...
...Habanera while engaging in some erotic byplay with a cigar, thrusting it into Don José's mouth at the words "L'amour, I 'amour. " In its total bleakness this is Carmen seen by a man familiar with Alban Berg's operas Wozzeck and Lulu, twin 20th century masterpieces of love, alienation and despair. The production also reflects Brook's distaste for conventional Bizet, which goes back to the time, 30 years ago, when he was production chief at London's Royal Opera House. "I looked with horror at how it was being presented...