Faced with a storm of protests, the Modern stepped back from its plan to demolish its diminutive neighbor on West 53rd Street, the former American Folk Art Museum, a striking sliver of a building designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, admired in architectural quarters.
Once a dusty, state-run monolith, BT Group is now taking the very modern step of embracing super-fast broadband, and it's hoping to claw back customers in the process.
Jerome Robbins's "Glass Pieces," the opening ballet, might have suggested how modern those steps can look, especially when mixed with jogging runs and striding walks and performed to tuneless but nonetheless stirring modern music by Philip Glass.
"In order to really make something appropriate for the event, I chose to sort of edit myself in the sense that it's not really crazy modern, contemporary steps," he said.
Non-avian dinosaur step lengths were estimated from the ratio of step length to hip height in modern birds (step length = 1.1hip height, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression: r2 = 0.87, n = 6, p<0.01).
Igal Perry, a guest choreographer, combined ballet with modern-dance steps in his new "Nocturnes," a pair of duets to Chopin.
A modern, progressive step forward for the country is how Mr Blair described the civil partnership legislation at his press conference.
Page B5 The Baroque and the Modern B3 Stepping Out in Public B6 STYLES FITNESS TO THE BEAT Of Salsa and Merengue It began, as many successes do, by accident.
Yet, dramatically, flamenco was not quite enough: the story was also enriched and propelled forward with the aid of modern-dance steps and a spoken text by the poet Samuel Hazo.
