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This is the ugliest hunk in the Yard, another undergraduate said. It looks like a dungeon. It's just overpowering drabness. I think it looks forbidding--kind of monstrous looking--Mem Hall does...
...building conveys a spirit, and some people call that spirit dungeon-like. A friend of mine calls it "jowly and very heavy--just like Richardson." It should not be forbidding. Perhaps though, it should suggest a two-sided romanticism, an ambivalence best suggested by the main archway. The solid doors open easily-but is there a portcullis hidden within? I sometimes wonder. The arch is very deep: the iron points of the sinister descending gate might be met at any depth. But the arch is also an intimate whispering arch: a murmur spoken into any of the grooves...
...Last week he started out on the Hollywood set of Towering Inferno, a film in which he plummets 360 ft. off a building to a sudden conclusion. Death scene completed, Chamberlain then caught an overnight flight to Rome to play the Count of Monte Cristo, who rises from the dungeon after 14 years. Featured with Chamberlain in the January television special of Alexander Dumas's classic are Actors Trevor Howard as friendly friar and Tony Curtis as villain...
Chamberlain's makeup artists spent a full two hours applying the dungeon look, and though the actor suffered through some scenes with a bad case of jet lag, no one seemed to notice...
...almost 900-year-old dungeon in the Tower of London, where historic heroes like Sir Walter Raleigh and villains like Guy Fawkes were once imprisoned, was jammed with the usual crowd of summer tourists last week. Suddenly, the three-ton 18th century Royal George cannon, a favorite exhibit with children, exploded with a deafening roar. The blast hurled the bronze gun barrel five feet into the air, showered bystanders with lethal splinters from the oak carriage, and blew out windows and a door 90 feet above...