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Drawing their inspiration from the work of the German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, the production team of Lehnhoff and Designer John Conklin created an emotionally resonant mythic landscape. The poetic ruin near which Siegfried encounters the Rhinemaidens in Gotterdammerung, for example, was suggested by Friedrich's Winter, and the staging uses other Friedrich images prominently. It was a back-to-nature approach, a middle ground between the conservative 1975 Seattle Ring, which was strongly influenced by Arthur Rackham's 1910-1911 book illustrations, and the experiments at Bayreuth, which included both Chereau's radical vision and Hall's muddled...
...Donald Conklin...
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, the firm that has designed the proposed replacement for Lever House, has charged that Lever is out of date and badly deteriorated, requiring restoration that would cost millions of dollars. Retorts William Conklin, vice chairman of the landmarks commission: "It's absolutely ridiculous to say that the building is falling down. It is unfair exaggeration used for political impact...
...expect, given the salaries in the business they have left behind. Mary Astor is here. Donald Crisp died here. Norma Shearer is here. Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson died here. Regis Toomey is here. Ellen Corby, the grandmother on The Waltons, just moved in. Stepin Fetchit is here. Bruce Cabot, Chester Conklin, Larry Fine (one of the Three Stooges), Edmund Lowe, Arthur O'Connell, Herbert Marshall and Mitchell Leisen (a director whose credits included Death Takes a Holiday) died here...
...Conklin said he repeatedly told students that they were accountable to the university for isolations of its rules, regardless of where they were studying...