• juncos and trushes
  "Like many other cities Toronto is a way station for hundreds of species of migrating birds. For reasons that remain a mystery, the bright lights of office towers seem to short circuit the natural navigational abilities of birds in night flight. Each spring and fall, thousands of them crash into windows where lights are on." (Greenberg LM, wsj_98.06.10)

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• social Advil
  "... homeowners are running into all sorts of hearth-and-home dilemmas: Can cutting-edge art and gracious hospitality coexist? How big is too big? When does a work go from being a conversation piece to a conversation killer?
  One thing is clear: Championing new art at home requires commitment, social savvy and a lot of Advil." (Daspin E, wsj_98.05.29)
  • dissecting soar
    "Sometimes it is sheer size, not subject matter ... Art adviser Ms Heirston and her boyfriend Pentti Kouri built their SoHo loft specifically to show-case a 15,000-pound, forge steel sculpture by Richard Serra, called 'Blakmum and Brennan.'

    To create a room big enough -- 38-feet square with 15-foot ceilings -- they hired an architect to combine two floors, raise the ceiling 5 feet, and remove three columns. But in this case, big was too big. ..." (wsj_98.05.29)

  • white
    "New York real-estate developer William Ehrlich has endured 30 years of criicism, not only of his art collection, but of the home he built to display it in -- and never budged an inch to accommodate critics. ...

    ... 'I've had people say, "All you need in this room is an operating table,"' he says. ... "Don't you have any throw pillows?" ' ..." (wsj_98.05.29)

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• moan
  "But there's no zoning in the Lisboa: Next to the children's play area sits a hostess bar, the men-only Club de Savoy." (Brady D, wsj_98.05.29)

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• effete
  "In Queensland, Australia, in the rain forest by the Daintree River, effete adventures can 'rough it' at Daintree Eco lodge's marble-floored, air conditioned treetop lodges, complete with minibars and in-room movies, for as much as $900 a night." (wsj_98.05.29)

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• 99 percent dreck
  "In a dramatic recitation suitable to the drawing itself, Terence Riley, the curator at the Museum of Modern Art, told of how the drawing came to the museum ..." (Iovine J, nyt_98.05.28)

  
  
  

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