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Sullivan (1856-1924) was America's first great modern architect. It's a curious twist of fate that, having written hundreds of thousands of words about architecture, he should be known to most people today by one phrase: "Form follows function." It became the motto of all functionalist designers, but it doesn't represent Sullivan's own ideas at all. He wasn't antidecoration. He was, rather, one of the greatest designers of decorative detail, in an age that excelled in it. But he insisted on the primacy of the main masses. Both this and the love of inventive detail...
Crowding the cordoned-off Holyoke and Dunster streets, about 30,000 people flocked to the book fair while several children flocked to have their pictures taken with the fair's celebrity guest, Curious George...
...Curious] George is awfully popular," said Gary Baldwin, a Wordsworth employee. "He's been getting hugs everywhere he goes...
There is a curious symmetry in the distribution of weight given to each of the four characters throughout the course of the play. Though Tom's narration frames the overall story, he and his mother dominate the first half (Preparation for a gentleman caller) to give way to Laura and Jim, who come to the forefront in the second (The Gentleman calls). For awhile, Amanda Wingfield really seems to take over as the central figure--the former Southern belle whose husband went AWOL long ago, and who is forced to inhabit a world of straightened means and two children...
...curious because I usually don't get that kind of phone solicitation," Wei said...