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Americans Abroad.('This Must Be the Place' and 'In the Land of No Right Angles')(Movie review)
Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker
Destination and destiny align in two winning debuts.
Hope, the melancholy protagonist of Anna Winger's This Must Be the Place (Riverhead), follows her estranged filmmaker husband to Berlin shortly after 9/11. Finding herself marooned in their palatial apartment and mourning a late-term miscarriage, she struggles to gain a toehold in the unfamiliar, rapidly transforming city. Then she befriends her neighbor, a once-famous soap actor who has made a second career in dubbing as the German voice of Tom Cruise but is still searching for his own role in life. Crossing paths in the building's elevator (a hilarious scene in which REO Speedwagon figures prominently), they join forces to plumb the building's secret history--and their own covert pasts. With a wryly engaging voice, Winger, who lives in Berlin and produces a radio series about the city for NPR, deftly reveals the rough-edged layers that make up places--and people.
Halfway around the globe, Alex, the wide-eyed young ...
- In the Land of No Right Angles.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly July 21, 2008 700+ words
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- Berkeley's Right Angles.
- Magazine article from: American Scholar GITLIN, TODD September 22, 2000 700+ words
...window views offered a certain compensation, relief from the major feature of Barrows Hall: right angles. Featureless right angles, in fact. Right angles without adornment, variation, or history. Right angles conveying the look of fixed logic...
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- Magazine article from: WWD April 20, 1990 700+ words
The Right Angles NEW YORK - Simple math comes easy to the handbag market with new geometric...making it easy for designers to show off their ability to measure the right angles. In a multitude of fabrics, textures and sizes, they are perfectly...
- Right angles: the Prudential Insurance Company of America's eastern home office...
- Magazine article from: Interior Design Maserjian, Karen January 1, 1991 700+ words
...partitions, and ceiling grid of the 600,000-sq.-ft. headquarters/operations center were duly realigned to form right angles with the building's long wall instead of with the off ice's short end. The resulting layout is more cohesive, maximizes...
- All the Right Angles.(Brief article)(Book review)
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All the Right Angles. By Stef Ann Holm. Oct. 2007. 384p. HQN, paper, $6.99 (0-37377186-X). Franci Moretti retains her femininity while...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Kuchment, Anna July 16, 2001 700+ words
...professionals are gawking at the cubicle of the future, which is notable mainly for the complete absence of solid walls or right angles. That absence, explains designer Hani Rashid, is the whole point of his curvilinear work tent, which comes draped in...
- How to play 'right angles' to get the sales you want.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: The Business Journal - Serving Phoenix & the Valley of the Sun Gitomer, Jeffrey June 16, 2000 700+ words
...or justifying your existence and worth. Reverse angle: Give no value and compete with the rest of the field. Using the right angles and adding the "value first" element to the equation puts you on the path to make you a millionaire. Or you can keep doing...
- A house without right angles.(THE DETAILS)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Professional Builder (1993) November 1, 2004 700+ words
...Matt Schlueb, principal of Schlueb Architecture, recently designed his own home in Pittsburgh, Pa., with virtually no right angles. Villa Vuoto features 2,600 square feet of living space, three levels, and simple and compounded curves, sloping walls...
