Word: villas
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...limestone chunks), the inside quite another (vast, airy volumes), and the rear (a huge, mirrorized steel plate) still another. Out back, a 60-ft. ramp projects uselessly and wonderfully up into the sky. With its impeccable detailing and rich, complex plan, the building reinvigorates the idea of the modernist villa...
Tunis is quiet after midnight, when the phone rings. This is a Yasser Arafat tradition, summoning visitors at all hours to make their way through a gauntlet of steel barricades to a villa in a quiet residential corner of the city. The stucco house looks like any other, except that it is surrounded by young men in jeans, bearing Kalashnikovs, smoking cigarettes. Their job is to keep the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization alive -- and they take it seriously. Male guests are patted down, their pockets emptied, wallets searched. Women are scanned with ultrasensitive metal detectors, their purses % ransacked...
...Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222, $12 general, $8 students. (LAM)Brattle Street Chamber Players Concert. The 14-member string group performs “To My Grandfather,” an original commissioned work by Derrick Wang ’06 along with Villa-Lobos’ “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9” and Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings.” Paine Hall. 8 p.m. Free. (MFK)Ad Frank & the Fast Easy Women. Local indie pop group Ad Frank & The Fast Easy Women perform...
...conversation with community, faculty members, and students—and receive current feedback on their work. She emphasized that all members of the Harvard community are welcome to attend these discussions.This year’s new fellows are Syl Cheney-Coker, previously a fellow of the Villa-Aurora Foundation for European-American Relations; Bobby Donaldson, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina; Stanley Engerman, a professor at the University of Rochester; Ronald Ferreira, assistant professor at the University of Virginia; Maria Frias, professor at the University of Coruna in Spain; Arlette Frund, associate professor at the Université Fran?...
...must try to make a larger public happy. He has retained the p.r. services of Michael Sitrick, who previously represented Mtley Cre's Tommy Lee. The museum has hired a new director, Michael Brand, and in early 2006 after a $275 million renovation will reopen the Malibu villa that houses its antiquities. John Walsh, the museum's director from 1983 to 2000, says the Getty once had "a certain intellectual and moral position which was, ironically, brought about by its financial freedom." Things have changed. The museum still occupies its lofty perch in the hills. But, says Walsh...