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...wrong. The historical commission voted 5 to 1 to issue a "certificate of appropriateness," but few passersby walk through Johnston Gate without a giggle or a smirk. "Cookie house" is a common label floating around the Yard. One employee asked for the designs so he could build a doll house for his daughter, Scott, who says he himself is pleased with the final product, concedes that some might not be so enamored of it. Among the host of comments he has received was the suggestion to hang a sign on the front door bearing "Welcome to Harvard Yardenstein...
...wrong. The historical commission voted 5 to 1 to issue a "certificate of appropriateness," but few passersby walk through Johnston Gate without a giggle or a smirk. "Cookie house" is a common label floating around the Yard One employee asked for the designs so he could build a doll house for his daughter. Scott who says he himself is pleased with the final product concedes that some might not be so enamored of it. Among the host of comments he has received was the suggestion to hang a sign on the front door bearing "Welcome to Harvard Yardenstein...
Four minutes. Nothing. At three minutes to the hour, a blood-red Mercedes screeches through the gate, careering into a reserved parking place. Out pops a 5-ft. 3-in., 99-lb. woman who, with her porcelain complexion, delicate features and glistening black hair, might pass for a Kabuki doll. As she scampers along on 2-in. wooden platform shoes, her mouth is al eady moving faster than her feet...
With her pouty face and magnificently sleek body, Isabelle Adjani looks like a Barbie doll grown up and gone bad. At 28, she has become the divine masochist of the French cinema, playing Truffaut's Adele H., or a woman who gives birth to a monster in Possession. This time Adjani has turned on her siren to play a troubled tramp in a village in southern France. In a cartoon of lust, she sashays provocatively down the main street, shimmies at the local dance, strides naked through backyards-all because of some dreadful childhood demons that take Director Jean...
...Corn points out, the eroticism that might have been an attribute of his figures is transferred entirely to the landscape they inhabit. Wood's people are nearly always emblems of either innocence or rectitude: pink and doll-like when they are not harsh and sanctimonious. But the hills are like green breasts and buttocks, heaving perceptibly in his preferred light, that of a young spring morning. The plowshare slices into them suggestively. His best landscapes from the '30s, like Spring Turning, 1936, are votives to the original dea mater: man makes his brown tattoos on that vast pelt...