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George Monroe (Kevin Kline) is an architect's assistant. He lives in a shack overlooking the ocean. He also has one of those fatal movie diseases that doesn't restrict strenuous physical activity or general good cheer. He decides to renovate his house and his disaffected son (Hayden Christensen) by employing him on the job. Will they reconcile? Will the house get finished before George croaks? Will the movie end in an orgy of sentiment? Why do we bother...
...Hughes brothers' adaptation has smaller ambitions. Moore's Jack believes he can see the grand design of time and space as created by the Great Architect of Masonic belief. The better to explore this great plan, Moore reveals the identity of the killer in the first chapter and makes him the central character. The movie version puts the focus on Inspector Aberline (Depp) and keeps the mystery of Jack's identity going until the final reel. This changes the whole purpose of the work from an examination of "a kind of lace tyin' things together. A kind of lace over...
...government sentenced Nie to one year of labor reform for publishing an open letter demanding the release of detained dissidents. DIED. ROBERTO DE OLIVEIRA CAMPOS, 84, one of Brazil's most prominent intellectual and political figures; in S?o Paulo. A staunch supporter of free markets, Campos was a principal architect of the 1970s' "Brazilian Miracle," a program that briefly turned his country's economy, which depends mainly on exports of coffee, sugar and cocoa, into the eighth-largest in the world. DIED. HERBERT ROSS, 74, director, producer and choreographer; in New York City. Ross cemented his reputation as a Broadway...
First, the project architect concluded renovating Coolige Hall, a former hotel with low ceilings and outdated elevators, would be nearly as expensive as constructing a new building. Besides, Cambridge residents were strongly set against the University eating up the little remaining park area behind Gund Hall...
After Cambridge residents blasted the buildings’ appearances at a series of community meetings, the University sent the architect back to the drawing board and, within 60 hours, returned with a completely redesigned plan, replacing the boxy facades with sweeping arcs of glass windows. Harvard also agreed to reduce the buildings’ height and set them farther back from the street...