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Clueless has another ancestor in Heathers, the most influential unseen film of the past 10 years. Heathers made the mistake of treating the peer success of blond teenage girls satirically. Amy Heckerling, the writer-director of Clueless, is cannier than that. An able architect of loosey-goosey comedy (she directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the Look Who's Talking films), Heckerling wants the viewer to like these girls even as she pokes fun at them. The toughest intellectual challenge for Cher and her friends may be deciphering the Thomas Guide map of Los Angeles streets, but they have...
Even the Carpenter center for the Visual Arts, the only building in North America designed by the renowned French architect Le Corbusier, doesn't hold a candle to the pretty buildings of Harvard's past...
...came to honor the heroes and victims of the greatest war in human history...A slight chill went down my spine, for I could not help observing that one table had been singled out as being special and particularly important. It was a table for the big powers...The architect of that seating arrangement...was not guided by a sense of responsibility for the world, but by the banal pride of the powerful...
...money of William K. Vanderbilt and his wealthy friends, and the sweat equity of the Shinnecock Indians who once inhabited this land on the eastern end of Long Island. The original clubhouse-the original American golf clubhouse-still stands sentinel over the course, a tribute to the genius of architect Stanford White. J.P. Morgan regularly challenged the links, as did Andrew Mellon...
That would have pleased Wright. But the ever combative architect also knew the importance of controversy: he liked few things better than a war of words. To the lord of Taliesin, the fact that Wisconsinites are still battling over one of his designs would have been further proof of his immortal genius...