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...course, do a building that's eco-responsible but aesthetically worthless. The crux of Foster's achievement is to have designed megastructures that are at the forefront of eco-design as well as beautiful in their own right. He is a fine detailer--everything from the junctures of a beam to the cladding to the door handles comes out of the same relentless aesthetic concentration. But on the wider scale, Foster is also one of the great living manipulators of light and transparency. No other government building in the world, for instance, can boast anything as outright exhilarating...
...crux of I Get No is the collapse of time. When an Elvis-impersonator bursts upon the founding fathers, we see the most realistic instance of time-space confuscation. "Elvis" escorts a dorky librarian to the future, where his mission is to prevent a militaristic presidential candidate from winning and fulfilling his alliance with a disco-dancing tele-evangelist by outlawing rock'n roll. They do so by transforming a stuttering barber-woman into the Cinderella candidate destined for victory. What follows is a synchronic allegory of post-revolutionary American history only thinly disguised as an innovative commentary on gender...
...actual budget surplus, an era when prosperity should have rendered these problems moot. Nothing in his speech was new; none of his statistics were shocking. Democrats in the audience surely agreed with most of Cuomo's ideas; Republicans, predictably, would have loved to debate him. But the crux of Cuomo's speech was nonpartisan and unpredictable indeed, because what Cuomo wanted to talk about was not government but redemption...
...105th Congress, which leaves office next month. As originally drafted it would have prohibited states and localities from taxing any business activity involving the Internet for six years. State and local governments argued the time period was too long and protested this preemption of their taxing authority, but the crux of the matter was sales tax collection on remote sales...
...most part caters to her every whim because his job depends on it. His lack of insurrection entrenches him in the picture of the status quo. It is the intern doctor who attempts to challenge the nurse in her ideology, and he makes the observation which is the crux of the play accusing, "The pillars of your house are blistered and peeling...