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...comic. During his years of working on the show in Los Angeles, he says, he longed for the "griminess of the stand-up world." Even today, he says, "whenever I have the opportunity to go to an old bar in New York that has that smell-that beer-soaked wood, that cheap-wine smell-I just swoon...
...post-war era, virtually every Hollywood director, from George Stevens and Fred Zinnemann on the A list, to Preston Sturges on the way down and Ed Wood who was never up, directed a Western. It was the new film noir - you could call it the anti-noir, trading claustrophobic darkness for blinding light in the wide-open spaces. But it was also a continuation of noir's fascination with the haunted man, the ordinary guy who'd been scarred by violent experiences. It spoke to returning veterans from World War II, young men from cities and farms who'd been...
...Noma, you won't find sun-dried tomatoes or year-round strawberries, nor will you find your Scandinavian grandmother's pork and cabbage warmed over for modern tastebuds. What you will find is a sophisticated Arctic-musk-ox tartare with wild wood sorrel that you eat with atavistic pleasure with your fingers, or maybe phenomenal giant langoustines from the Faroe Islands. Instead of olive oil, there's skyr, a virtually fat-free cultured-milk product from Iceland, and homemade elderflower vinegars and pickled sweet cicely. The dishes are executed with such aesthetic refinement that they take on a quality...
...Gharbi, near Palmyra. Examples of what is suspected to be the world's first alphabet, Ugarit, show evidence of agreements between ancient kings and merchants carved in clay; just a few rooms away can be seen beautiful Korans and other incredible works of medieval art in stone, ceramic and wood. Many of the displays are not labeled or are identified confusingly (and rarely in English). The museum's guidebook is dense and difficult to use, but one presses on regardless, spellbound by the archaeological wealth on show...
That's the philosophy behind Sidwell's new middle school, where science teachers like Jennifer Mitchell have incorporated lessons on solar panels, double-glazed windows and other green features into their curriculums. When students discover that the wood beneath their feet comes from recycled wine casks or that carbon dioxide sensors in the classrooms can automatically adjust temperature by detecting how many people are inside, they're living a daily lesson in what green really means. "It becomes a standard they take with them," says Mitchell...