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In their attempt to present both a personal and social perspective on the situation in Iran, the directors follow Kazem around Houston, using their camera carefully and unobtrusively, often relying on glaring juxtapositions. Whenever Kazem's wife appears in a scene, as she does for instance, in a sequence where...
These alone would make a brilliant volume. Mili offers more. Nobody has photographed dance, theater and performing musicians better than he did. His visions of Florence and Chartres Cathedral are almost enough to make a trip to either place unnecessary. With great compression the book also tells the story of...
If the novel is, as Randall Jarrell suggested, a long narrative that has something wrong with it, the short story of the past decade might be said to suffer from a tendency toward perfection. Talented writers keep popping up in the few magazines that still publish fiction. The technical level...
At the University of California's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, scientists added another improvement: a magnetic flux compression generator, which increases the thrust of the magnetic field by squeezing it with a carefully directed explosive charge, a technology pioneered during nuclear weaponry research...
In the first series, seven houses designed in the years 1954-64, Hejduk has chosen a simple geometric shape, the square, to express the essence of his architecture, and he begins a search into the "generating principles of form and space." By starting with juxtapositions of basic relationships--of point...