” The building, a luxury hotel and cultural complex designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, is part of China Central Television’s new headquarters, an angular two-legged behemoth built to coincide with the Beijing Olympics last year.”
Tag: 02.09.09
Please — Don’t Sell It. This Is Ballet.
“An epidemic of flirtiness has attacked our ballet companies. The dancers woo us, grin at us, give us saucy looks. … The situation is worse, of course, in lighter-hearted pieces.”
Roger Angell On Decades Of Editing Updike
“As a contributor, he was patient with editing, and pertinaciously involved with his product: an editor’s dream. My end of the work was to point out an occasional inconsistent or extraneous sentence, or a passage that wanted something more. Almost under his breath over our phone connection, while we looked at the same lines, he would try out an alternative: ‘Which one sounds better, do you think?'”