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As would anyone who does not mind being tricked and teased by the architecture at almost every turn. The new building (paid for mainly by O.S.U. alumnus and Columbus-based retailer Leslie Wexner) may have been the perfect project for this hyperintellectualizing bad boy to prove himself on: it was...
The Wexner Center is, appropriately, both grand and zany, yet unlike earlier Eisenman designs, it does not seem meanspirited. And it works. The site, shrewdly chosen by the architects, is the 48-ft.-wide space between a tidy 1979 concrete cube of a recital hall and a huge, Albert Speerish...
But that does not mean the building is easy to understand or like. Running its whole, three-city-blocks length is a permanent, jungle gym-like white steel scaffolding. The faux scaffold is inspired: it defines a long outdoor walkway, it plays tricks with perspective (Does the thing tilt up...
In his Inaugural Address last January, George Bush obliquely appealed to Iran to work with him for the release of nine American hostages held by Islamic groups in Lebanon. Since then the U.S. and Iran have carried on a delicate game of winks and nods, feints and gestures. The game...
Iran has several times linked any effort on behalf of the hostages to the release of Iranian assets. It calculates those to be worth far more than the amount unfrozen last week, including perhaps what it claims are $12 billion in weapons purchased from the U.S. but never delivered. So...