Word: cyclotron
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...part of his body - just leaning, as if he were wearing clown shoes for balance. Then he goes into his act. He?s got one prop, an umbrella, and his dance exhausts its every use: as a cane, a pointer, a balancer on the tightrope of a curb, a cyclotron whirling him inside a whirlwind. But often he just holds it - who needs protection from the elements when you?re in love? "Come on with the rain! I?ve a smile on my face!" At the end he splashes, stomps his feet in the water; ecstasy makes him infantile...
...know why New York City can survive anything you throw at it, one good place to start is the Louis Faurer retrospective at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. In the 1940s and '50s, when Faurer roamed the streets with his 35-mm camera, New York was already a cyclotron for every human impulse. The saintly and the unsanitary spun around at high speed. In his pictures the city was a place of immigrant bustlers. Raw bloodlines howl from their faces. The streets were full of plump, sexy cars, carnal Fords and pontoon-fendered Buicks. By some reports Faurer could...
Eliminating the cyclotron is part of a larger overhaul Harvard is planning for science buildings around Oxford St. and Divinity Ave. The University promises the end result someday will be more research facilities, more grass and less asphalt...
This winter, when Harvard first announced that the cyclotron was slated for destruction, residents in the surrounding Agassiz neighborhood expressed alarm. Neighborhood activists formed a group to take a second look at Harvard’s plans. They call themselves the Agassiz Committee on the Impacts of Development—or ACID for short...
...until Harvard’s report to public health officials is completed, the danger of the cyclotron site will be unclear, says Sheldon Krimsky, a member of ACID and a professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University...