Word: duplexes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even human disasters are transfigured into something inhumanly beautiful. The adulterous executive leaves his windowless bedroom to seek aid, and enters his duplex office to find it on fire--huge velveteen curtains, bargello chairs, plush carpeting. His clothing catches fire as well. We lose sight of the human perspective as the director shifts into slow motion and we watch only a vaguely human figure on fire stagger through a room, framed by flames as floor, ceiling and walls burn. (Early in the film there are a couple of graphic shots of charred skin, but--after these few nauseating moments...
...pictures in Elsa's Housebook are surprisingly small and often less revealing of Dorfman and her subjects than the prose that surrounds and often threatens to overwhelm them. Nearly all of the pictures were taken within the last two years in the kitchen or livingroom of Dorfman's modest duplex near Mather House, where she is a photography tutor...
Then there are islands in the sky, and many of this genus are far more expensive than the real thing. A well-heeled couple recently plunked down $650,000 for a nine-room penthouse duplex 51 stories above Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. The apartment will be as secure as Fort Knox, look superciliously down upon neighboring St. Patrick's Cathedral, and allow its tenants, on a clear day, to see, if not forever, at least to New Jersey. They will be among the first residents of Olympic Tower, a complex of 230 condominiums, 19 floors of offices, exercise...
...Duplex is by Ed Bullins, once minister of culture for the Black Panther Party, and it's part of a projected series of 20 full-length plays about black people in America. Bullins modestly calls it the "Twentieth Century Cycle." Among his other accomplishments are an Obie award and, for his first novel, possibly the worst review ever to appear in The Crimson. Tonight through Saturday, 7:30 at the Loeb...
Plans call for two high-rise towers (one of which will be set aside for the elderly); two mid-rise buildings that drop from eight to four stories; one that goes from 12 to six stories; and 150 duplex units for larger families. The development will also include a community center, an outdoor swimming pool and an underground parking garage. Out of a total of 858 units, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and various local agencies will subsidize 500 at low and moderate-income rates, with the remaining 358 units available at market rate. Harvard has agreed...