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...down with encyclopedic elucidations of Hindu and Buddhist iconography, with which Zhou hardly bothers. The Bayon, with its weird smiling heads, widely considered to be hybrids of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara's face and that of the Bayon's famous Buddhist builder, Jayavarman VII, is for Zhou simply a "gold tower." The few times he does play the amateur art historian or archaeologist, he gets it wrong, as when he mistakes a massive recumbent bronze Vishnu (now at Phnom Penh's National Museum) for a Buddha sculpture...
...shock to many of the musicians after the support they claimed to have received as undergraduates—from a new recording studio at Hilles to performance venues where some of the bands first got their start. Snyder created The States in the basement of Leverett F Tower his junior year. Cruz founded the band Major Major during his time at Harvard and was also the head of Mariachi Veritas.Even if they didn’t start a rock band at Harvard, most who played at Harvard Rocks NYC took advantage of Harvard’s music scene. Wood dabbled...
...kicked out of China in June 2007 after illegally scurrying up the country's tallest building, the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, which stands 1,410 feet...
...ascended most of the world's tallest buildings, including Taiwan's Taipei 101, Chicago's Sears Tower and the Eiffel Tower in Paris...
...thought I might fall, but you know, when you are facing a problem where your life is in danger, there is only one option." - On climbing the Sears Tower in 1999; heavy humidity made the building's glass windows very slick. (In an interview with Buildering.net, June...