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...nature of architecture, not from Volume I of its history but from what he calls Volume Zero. "Volume Zero," he says, "is what precedes shape, it is the source." His reflections on the nature of building materials express themselves in apparently irreducible riddles, like Zenkoans (Q. "What does a brick like?" A. "An arch"), or bizarrely provocative but elliptical ruminations...
...been re-established in Calcutta, a city where, between 1967 and 1971, the extreme leftist Naxalites had been responsible for an average of ten political murders a day. There were 6,000 policemen on hand to guard the camp. But they were kept far busier separating bottle-and brick-throwing supporters of various Congress Party factions than in foiling left-wing plots...
...Catholic Church and grade school are all running low; Father John Dorton worries that "you can't have kids in class freezing." For want of fuel, some firms like AMF Western Tool Division (which turns out lawnmowers and such winter products as snowplows) and Can Tex (which manufactures brick, tile and sewer pipe at plants in Ottumwa, Redfield and Mason City) have had to stop production altogether or cancel night shifts. Governor Robert Ray has asked the University of Iowa and all large businesses in the state to switch back to burning highly polluting...
...developed the right idea about money. In return, the man prospered sufficiently to get a new house and "a Cadillac car . . . I have the Cadillac car home right now . . . parked right outside." The audience of 5,000 cheered, and Ike breathed, "That's . . . style. Enjoy your new brick home and ride your Cadillac!" Over the amens and right ons from the audience, Ike reiterated his philosophy: "Don't wait for your pie in the sky, by and by. Get youah paaaaaiee no-ow! With ice cream...
...Roof. Richard Brooks directed and adopted the Tennessee Williams play for the screen. Perfectly cast, with Paul Newman as Brick, an honorable but emasculated cripple, Elizabeth Taylor as his frustrated wife Maggie (the cat), and Burl Ives as his father Big Daddy, whose death and inheritance all the family save Brick and Maggie yearn for. One of the more palatable of the Williams films, and Brook's best...