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Great Design, Norman Foster – Three People Have Been Hurt Walking Into Glass At Apple’s HQ

Actually, many more people have walked into the glass, but three people, in the first month of operation, have been hurt enough to call emergency services. “The glass has been specially treated to achieve an exact level of transparency and whiteness. The doorways reportedly have perfectly flat thresholds because ‘if engineers had to adjust their gait when entering the building, they risked distraction from their work’, according to a construction manager.”

Rousseau – That Famous Enlightenment Thinker – Advocated Book Burning

Whew, Jean-Jacques, WYD? “Rousseau did not pull any punches: according to him, far from contributing to the purification of morals, the sciences and the arts had had the opposite effect. The progress brought about by the restoration of letters in the Renaissance had only been superficial, exclusively affecting appearances; in reality, letters provoke the degeneration of morals, today just as in Antiquity.”

The Arts Babble On About The MeToo Movement, But There’s Little Action, Says One Playwright

Katori Hall says change won’t be easy: “That requires a lot of giving up. Giving up your seat to let people sit at the table who haven’t always been allowed to sit … that’s often not on the stage, but where the decisions are made. That’s on the board. How many black artistic directors does the UK theatre scene have? I’m always asking, are we performing inclusion, are we performing diversity? Or are we actually doing it. Let’s see if the acknowledgment phase shifts through into the action phase.”

The Academy Expanded, But The Theatre Shrank, So Who Gets Tickets To The Oscars?

After tickets for nominees and their family and friends, tickets for the studios, tickets for media, etc., are given away, there are only a few hundred left. “Members receive an email around the holidays, inviting them to enter a ticket lottery. And while the academy has embraced online voting, the lottery is conducted the old-fashioned way. Names are written on slips of paper and then pulled out of a drum. ‘We don’t use a hat, but it’s close,’ says an academy worker familiar with the process.”

To Avoid Any Mix-Ups, The Envelopes For The Oscars Listed Their Categories In Huge Print

If you were watching, you might have started laughing as soon as Viola Davis came out to present the Best Supporting Actor award: “The gold, giant bold type on the dark envelope, loudly announcing the name of the category, was so unmistakable it could be read clearly on TV. Last year’s envelope was an elegant red, but the smaller gold lettering on it was not so easily readable.”

The First Woman To Force The British Royal Academy To Let Her In Blazed A Trail For Others

Even in the early 20th century, women weren’t allowed to study nude bodies at the Royal Academy – they had to travel to Rome or Paris to do that. But Annie Swynnerton persisted – even though she “faced prejudice not just for her gender but also for her realistic, unromanticised depiction of female bodies, which was dismissed by those who preferred unblemished classical fantasy.”

What Was Frances McDormand Talking About With The Words ‘Inclusion Rider’?

When she won for best actress in a motion picture, McDormand gave a short, fiery speech that ended with “I have two words for you: Inclusion rider.” Those two words sent millions to Google, but there wasn’t much there (at the time). An inclusion rider would be “something actors put into their contracts to ensure gender and racial equality in hiring on movie sets.”

How ‘The Post’ Makes Katherine Graham Less Interesting Than She Really Was

Obviously, it would do that because it’s just a movie, not a life (and not even a biopic), but still: “The real Graham, who survived a poor-little-rich-girl childhood and an abusive marriage, was wracked for most of her life by self-doubt. Her actual life … oozed much more drama, and she lived through it with a mix of admirable qualities (guts, leadership) and ugly ones (insecurity, insensitivity).”