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...building at Wayne University in Detroit is almost too pretty to be great. But it does promise well for the 60 acres of new campus construction that Wayne and Yamasaki hope to add. A Seattle-born Nisei, Yamasaki is in love both with Western technology and Oriental refinement. His crisp little temple of talk, set beside a reflecting pool, owes a lot to the Taj Mahal, something to Japanese paper fans, and most of all to modern engineering in glass and concrete. Yamasaki puts precision over ornamentation and lets nature collaborate to provide most of the beauty. The sunlight falling...
Issuing forth from ranch houses, county courthouses and statehouses across the nation, hoards of Democratic Party workers filled the crisp fall air with bristling words about their party, the opposition and the Democratic candidates. Confident that they were winning hands down, they knew when to ride entirely on local savvy and prestige, when to call in one of their headliners to rally up the homefolks. Among last week's headliners...
...this, as in the other three stories (also about waifs and strays), Author Capote has retained sentiment without permitting himself schmalz, achieved pity without falling into self-pity. Over whatever is sordid falls his crisp, clean prose. At the end of Breakfast, Holly's whereabouts are unknown and she may even be dead and "travelin' through the pastures of the sky." But her fate is really written in her dialogue. Bad little good girls like Holly Golightly never die; they go to Broadway, where Julie Harris plays them...
Like the book, the film tells the story of Skeffington's last campaign. His henchmen go out and get their Irish up, and the whole South Side is voting mad on election day. But this time the banks (Basil Rathbone) and the church (Donald Crisp) and the big newspaper (John Carradine) combine against the old man. Their candidate is just a "6ft. hunk of talking putty," but what with a pretty wife, four kids and a rented dog, he looks great on television; and so he carries the day. All alone, the old man walks through the night...
...reacted to L. Hugh Redundancy's latest work in The Advocate. You answer that it was just great, really fine, or you squiggle up your nose in an evasive act of disdain, depending of course whether, in the first case, you enjoy drinking an occasional glass of crisp refresher with Rendundancy, or, in the second, he takes your sister out to the movies on Saturday nights and you don't like his looks...