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...also learns quite a bit more than medicine from Michael Caine's Dr. Larch. Caine perfectly embodies the Dr. Larch of the novel. Although he has a gruff exterior, Larch loves all of his orphans, especially young Homer. It breaks his heart when Homer leaves, but he never gives up--just like, you might say, a real father. His signature line, spoken to the orphans before bed, "Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England," belies an overly optimistic hope for the future all of his young ones, a love and faith that he passed on to Homer...
...Artschwagers sculptures look equally foreign; his wooden structures, built to resemble either furniture or boxes, would be highly unnatural in any environment. This commentary on interior and exterior (a la Rachel Whiteread), packaging and contents, and meaning in art, would be trite and dull if not for the sheer beauty and subtlety of the forms. There is a radiance and sheen to the light wood which fills these works with an uncanny ebullience and optimism. By carving out space where conventional forms would otherwise protrude, at the top of the bed, for instance, Artschwager complicates his works further. He negates...
Jeff Koons' Rabbit (1986), a blow-up bunny cast in mirror-bright steel, is plunked down center stage, surrounded by works that date from the Wall Street boom of the '80s. Its cartoonish exterior basks in the shiny glare of its obviousness: here is our post-Pop world--little else than the distorted reflection of commerce, all chrome and gaudy light. And as you approach it, you too are caught in its surface: carnival-like and bloated, staring...
Designed by acclaimed Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, COSI is housed in a stark shell-like exterior that sits like a giant canoe across from downtown Columbus. Inside its purposely skewed interior walls (variously aligned to three different versions of north: true, magnetic and the local street grid's) are seven thematic areas called Learning Worlds. Within each, visitors are free to immerse themselves in scientific concepts that range from basic physics to advanced medicine. "One of the problems with all science centers is the 'Ping-Pong-ball effect,'" says Joseph Wisne, COSI's vice president for design and production. "Visitors...
...with the plane soaring past 44,000 ft., Air Force Captain Chris Hamilton steered his F-16 within 50 ft. of the Lear, close enough to signal the pilots. Though the passenger jet's exterior appeared intact, its cockpit windows were obscured by what looked to be a "light coat of frost." Over the next two hours, four other F-16s shadowed the plane. By then, the roving aircraft had made the news. Stewart's Australian-born wife Tracey heard it on a TV news report and tried in vain to call her husband on his cell phone. At about...