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When Mather-, Dunster- and Lever-ites return to Harvard this fall, they’ll find themselves sharing the East River with wrecking balls and cement mixers. The songs of sparrows, dog barks along the Leverett-Dunster walkway, the gentle whirring of Louie’s fluorescent Busch beer sign—all gone, muffled by the sounds of gas and steel...
OPENED. THE GATES, 7,500 saffron-colored fabric panels hanging from 4.9-m.-tall portals along 37 km. of walkway in Central Park; in New York City. The brainchild of duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the public art installation took 26 years of planning and $20 million to execute, but will be remarkably short-lived: The Gates come down...
...stretcher whom the Kevlar-clad ambulance crew wheels straight to a treatment room; a youth whose injuries - a lacerated hand and a bite on his arm - were sustained in a brawl outside a pub; and a tipsy woman in high-heeled boots who hurt her ankle on a cobblestone walkway. It's a typical Friday night in the center of Nottingham, a city of 267,000 in middle England where on weekends 50,000 people roll up to more than 350 establishments licensed to sell alcohol - all within a few blocks. Licensing authorities allow 70% of the area's pubs...
Fluorescent colors are prominent as well as blocky, inorganic geometry and stripes. Looking from the construction paper frieze around the upper walkway to the orange and pink wall hanging to a small gray and pink painting, it is in no way obvious who designed what, or even that three different people were involved...
...opposite sex. Every woman I've asked has said no, often with an incredulous head-shake; every man has said yes. One fellow - we'll call him Steve - told me of a time he was driving across the Brooklyn Bridge and spotted a luscious woman on the walkway. He sped ahead, parked by a bench in a park just below the Bridge exit and sat there waiting for her, ready to make blithe conversation, as if he hadn't just executed an Earnhardt in hopes his impromptu romantic gambit would...