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...film its experiential quality. Because the film is shown on the over-sized OMNIMAX screen--76 feet in diameter and tilted at a 30 degree angle to the horizon--Chronos practically surrounds you. Furthermore, the curvature of the screen warps your perception of the world. Shots of a canyon floor from a high mountain peak are somewhat dizzying and flat deserts appear curved and other-worldly...
Spiegelman said Harvard might sell the land if Davis used it to spread out the development over more space, thus making it a better neighbor. "We don't want a canyon on DeWolfe St.," she said, noting that "we've already created our own long wall" in the Quincy House facade...
Spiegelman said Harvard might sell the land if Davis used it to spread out the development over more space, thus making it a better neighbor. "We don't want a canyon on DeWolfe St.," she said, nothing that "we've already created our own long wall" in the Quincy House facade...
...with a brain like yours, the object is to recover money from Uncle Harold. That's the overall game plan." From the sidelines, Kenneth comments bitterly, "Basically, he didn't even want what they wanted -- the money. As many dollar bills as it would take to fill the Grand Canyon wouldn't have been enough for them. Plant morphology satisfied him. So how were they to understand one another...
Again and again, however, the eye goes back to a more sober image, Canyon Country, California, June 1983, one of Sternfeld's infrequent portraits. A man sits before the camera with his arm around a young girl who appears to be his daughter. He looks at the lens. She looks into the distance. Behind them, a suburban street heads out toward a ridge of parched mountains. These are the people in the advance guard of that spreading population, the now-and-future pioneers of perhaps doubtful American prospects. If their implacability looks admirable, Sternfeld has also made...