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...been imported, as intellectual fashion, from Europe. Nothing could be further from the truth. The concise and mighty industrial-based forms of American building, conceived by architects from James Bogardus in the 1850s to Louis Sullivan in the 1890s and by the engineers of a technology whose emblematic climax was John and Washington Roebling's Brooklyn Bridge, were among the prototypes of European avant-garde thinking before and after World War I. Even to the Russian constructivists, "Americanism" was something infinitely desirable: it stood for electricity, progress, a society knit together and made transparent by fast communication...
...Michael Ritchie film that satirized beauty pageants. The narrative, centering on girls who are strangers, inevitably lacks complex relationships and love interest. Moreover, it is difficult to write a parody much funnier than the real Miss America proceedings. And it is hard to keep audiences interested in the climax -- which entrant will win -- after repeatedly telling them it shouldn't matter. Curiously, Smile works. It is a swift-paced, skillfully performed and thoroughly professional entertainment that balances amusement at the shallow ambitions of the characters with respect for the depth of their feelings. Composer Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line...
Following the NSC meeting, events moved quickly toward the climax almost nobody in Washington had anticipated. Late Monday afternoon Meese personally questioned Poindexter for the first time and got the impression that the National Security Adviser was ready to quit. Poindexter, who is a Vice Admiral, promptly confirmed that desire by immediately offering his resignation to Reagan, who accepted it the next morning; he told the President he wanted to return to active duty in the Navy. Nobody made any attempt to dissuade him. According to one insider, Reagan was far more angry with Poindexter than the President would...
...actors handle this difficult material skillfully; Sullivan is especially good at sustaining and timing Hallie's disturbing descent into cruel racism. The threesome falter but once, as they move toward the climax of the play. They need to take more time, to let each line sink in, and we would feel the shattering moment with all of its power. All in all, though, director and cast do great justice to Master Fugard...
...disasters begins, reaching a comic critical mass in a mud patch in the English countryside. On his journey into an ordinary man's heart of darkness, he incurs the wrath of wife, ex-lover, police, and hapless passersby, and attracts the affections of one of his older students. The climax at the headmasters' conference is a hilarious recreation of Simpson's schoolroom with adult students, bringing the plot into a neat full circle...