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...New York City Ballet, founded in 1948 by Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein, is celebrating its 75th anniversary at the Lincoln Center....
...Sennett refers to the difference between Billionaires’ Row and the Rockefeller Center, a place of constant public and civic activity....
...It had to have been heartbreaking,” says Bryan Richards, emerging disease co-ordinator at the US Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center....
...The WSJ report described the case of one patient who was recently transferred from a posting in a European capital to be treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland....
...In contrast to New York, where dawdling elicits piercing expletives, I watch Washingtonians reading books, heads bowed in absorption, as they saunter in the streets....
...Lynch Theater in Manhattan, courtesy of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. From there, it’s on to the five other co-commissioners....
...Videos produced through his foundation have been shown in the Lincoln Center and at MoMA New York....
...On his albums, Stevens’ angelic voice and precise, piercing lyrics preside over his disparate instrumentals, holding the songs together....
...I have come here to meet Thomas Walther, a 76-year-old provincial judge with piercing eyes, long grey hair and dark bushy eyebrows....
...“The CDC [Centers for Disease Control] tells you that chronic illness is 86 per cent of the $2.7tn US healthcare spend. Many come from stress-related behaviours....
...“We are piercing the Chinese veil ourselves,” the official says. “We are not relying on them to tell us what is going on.”...
...Though I have known Brzezinski for years – and received news tips from him by email and fax – I still feel unsettled by his piercing gaze....
...has Twombly’s sense of modernist instability and postmodern ruin – witness the fragmentary, dripping beauty of his 2006 “Cage” abstractions, with their fleeting smears and smudges of carmine or emerald piercing...
...But both are good enough to justify this belated revival, especially when Wynton Marsalis’s Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is in the house, as it was last week....
...In more than 500 pages, the first official government report into the financial crisis cast blame widely – accusing the Federal Reserve of having “neglected its mission” by not piercing the housing bubble...
...When I was there a crowd of people stood mesmerised by a huge snowstorm and a sky as grey and heavy as lead that split to reveal piercing sunbeams of baroque intensity....
...The Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg is one of the most dramatic contemporary buildings I have seen; the factory for BMW in Leipzig is a brilliant piece of showmanship; the Maggie’s Centre in Kirkcaldy...
...Indeed, the destruction of the World Trade Center in the most horrific and symbolic manner imaginable seems to have had remarkably little impact on the urge to live high....
...The scientific community is raring to go, to move from the side to the center of the action where it belongs....
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