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...ideal cities" of Leonardo da Vinci or Etienne-Louis Boullée, although devoid of people, were at least images of fantastic beauty. The modern future, as imagined by Antonio Sant Elia in 1914, Ludwig Hilberseimer in 1928 and Le Corbusier in 1934, has a nightmarish, totalitarian quality, akin to George Orwell's 1984 foreboding of a boot in the face. It seems incredible that many of the most talented and renowned designers in the Aspen tent had once believed in and fought for these visions...
...refer to the classics of Marxism-Leninism. They referred to the simplest natural rights due man upon his very birth in accordance with common sense." In turn, Fuentes aimed the same observations at the equally simplistic Reagan Administration, saying that attributing unrest in El Salvador to Communist infiltration "is akin to crediting the Soviet accusations that the Solidarity movement in Poland is somehow the creature of the United States." He added that the conflict in El Salvador, as throughout the region, springs from years of being fed up with "political corruption and democratic impossibility...
...their narration, Brownlow and Gill say the footage they recovered and lovingly shaped into a scholarly and joyous television show is akin to finding the sketch books of a great painter. They are right. What is wrong is that no U.S. television distributor has as yet agreed to broadcast the work. But the series will be on view at New York City's Museum of Broadcasting July 12-16. It is worth any amount of trouble to examine the treasures these raiders of the lost film cans have found...
...said the report, effectively stopped the program from going forward. It cast official bickering over procedures and a preoccupation in Washington with saving money in terms of a classic bureaucratic foul-up. Stated the report: "Far from the ideal of top-down management, the program has endured something more akin to management by hung jury...
Eleven tugs, like minnows trying to budge a whale, nudged the carrier or pulled with tow lines, but the Enterprise did not move. In a maneuver akin to righting an unbalanced rowboat, the ship's crew was ordered to assemble on the carrier's port side. Their combined weight, coupled with the shifting of water in the vessel's ballast tanks, was meant to tip the ship in hopes of freeing it. But the keel, which normally requires 36 ft. of water for safe clearance, remained stuck. Only with the help of the outgoing tide...