The New Yorker 2014-04-14, 2013-11-11
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fiefoe"Deep Frieze" / Daniel Mendelsohn
__ Although many people thin of the Parthenon as the epitome of Greek architecture, it was typical of nothing at all, an anomaly in terms of material, size and design.
__ The facade may have the memorable simplicity of a logo,.. but there are almost no straight lines in the building.
__ Arching, leaning, straining, swelling, breathing: the over-all effect of the Parthenon's architectural subtleties is to give the building a special and slightly unsettling quality of being somehow alive... It was found that vertical grooves, or flutes, carved into the building's columns represent the arcs not of a circle... but of an ellipse. This ostensibly minor technical feature accounts for a major effect: the uncanny play of light and shadow along the columned facade as the sun rises and sets, which... can make it seem that every day "the Parthenon is moving into the light."
"Blue Bloods" / Ian Frazier
{Always so hard to read about conservation subjects.}
__ The dusk deepened, the moon rose higher. A few non-volunteering spectators showed up - a woman in a fur coat, her beautiful daughter, and a young man carrying a bicycle wheel. Farther along the beach, Russian fishermen stood beside their belled fishing poles, impassive and unimpressed as only Russians can be.
__ In the Carboniferous period, when most bacteria able to digest wood had not yet evolved, a planetary reservoir of plant carbon was buried and became coal... Horseshoe crabs have been around at least two hundred times as long as human beings.
__ A spring day at Mispillion Harbor, on the western shore of Delaware Bay about twenty miles south of Dover, out-springtimes almost anyplace. The beaches and the creeks and the broad flats of cordgrass and phragmites are a widespread racket of bird noise, the sky above the shoreline effervesces with fliers.
Radclifffe said, "It's interesting what happens to people when they become aware of what it is that other people love about them. It was the death of punk.
"The Man In the Box": Berk.. is so elegant and lithe that she looks as if she had pipe cleaners where her bones are supposed to be.
__ Although many people thin of the Parthenon as the epitome of Greek architecture, it was typical of nothing at all, an anomaly in terms of material, size and design.
__ The facade may have the memorable simplicity of a logo,.. but there are almost no straight lines in the building.
__ Arching, leaning, straining, swelling, breathing: the over-all effect of the Parthenon's architectural subtleties is to give the building a special and slightly unsettling quality of being somehow alive... It was found that vertical grooves, or flutes, carved into the building's columns represent the arcs not of a circle... but of an ellipse. This ostensibly minor technical feature accounts for a major effect: the uncanny play of light and shadow along the columned facade as the sun rises and sets, which... can make it seem that every day "the Parthenon is moving into the light."
"Blue Bloods" / Ian Frazier
{Always so hard to read about conservation subjects.}
__ The dusk deepened, the moon rose higher. A few non-volunteering spectators showed up - a woman in a fur coat, her beautiful daughter, and a young man carrying a bicycle wheel. Farther along the beach, Russian fishermen stood beside their belled fishing poles, impassive and unimpressed as only Russians can be.
__ In the Carboniferous period, when most bacteria able to digest wood had not yet evolved, a planetary reservoir of plant carbon was buried and became coal... Horseshoe crabs have been around at least two hundred times as long as human beings.
__ A spring day at Mispillion Harbor, on the western shore of Delaware Bay about twenty miles south of Dover, out-springtimes almost anyplace. The beaches and the creeks and the broad flats of cordgrass and phragmites are a widespread racket of bird noise, the sky above the shoreline effervesces with fliers.
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Radclifffe said, "It's interesting what happens to people when they become aware of what it is that other people love about them. It was the death of punk.
"The Man In the Box": Berk.. is so elegant and lithe that she looks as if she had pipe cleaners where her bones are supposed to be.
