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...housed in the Beaux Arts-style War Veterans' Memorial Building and so cramped that the permanent collection had to be taken down whenever a temporary show went up. In 1990 designs for a new building were made public. It would cost $60 million, all in private money, and the architect was an Italian-Swiss little known in America: Mario Botta...
...else -- above the television adaptations, the novels that inspired them and all the unsubstantiated but unshakable rumors about the writer's romantic pursuits. (he was -- take your pick -- impotent, licentiously heterosexual or repressedly homosexual.) Hardy's life makes clear that his poetry was paramount. He trained initially as an architect, abandoned that profession for novel writing, then abandoned that one for verse writing...
Unfortunately, Seymour-Smith treats the poems as interesting chiefly for their personal revelations. He scants the trait that more than anything else defines Hardy as a poet: his structural inventiveness. The former architect retained a love of building. A recent study of Hardy estimates that he composed in more than 790 metrical forms. (A comparison with two other poets celebrated for their versatility is instructive: Swinburne wrote in about 420 forms; Browning in 200.) There's a great irony in this statistic. The most formally restless of English poets was, in his daily life, one of the most rooted...
...film begins with this radically destabilizing image of the private bourgeois existence within which Lavin has withdrawn. Since the days in the orphanage, Lavin has become an architect, now married with a wife and two young boys. Smith aims to explore the ambiguities of this man, who at one point in his life inflicted such pain on those around him. With the sudden return of his past actions. Lavin still inflicts pain on those around him, but in a radically different way. Now the camera focuses on the confusion, mistrust and terror in the eyes of his wife. She must...
Offering comfort to Dole last week, the former British Prime Minister and co-architect of the war against Iraq said, "Did you ever hear of anything so absurd as to go after the runway but not the aircraft? I must say on the whole, my method of tackling aggression was quite a good one." In a Daily Mail commentary excoriating Hurd, defense analyst and Oxford historian Mark Almond concluded, "Whitehall's indignation at American criticism is all the more heated because it masks a bad conscience." His view was echoed in Washington by a similar criticism of Clinton...