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...blinded combat veteran (Cliff DeYoung) returns home to the proto typical family of TV sitcoms. The fa ther (Tom Aldredge) is glued to foot ball on the tube. The mother (Anne Jackson) busies herself waiting on her husband and their younger son (Alan Cauldwell), who serves as a kind of bucktoothed Greek chorus of one. To ease the pain of memory, the veteran is force-fed cliches, sleeping pills and a refrigerator full of fudge, milk and soda pop. When none of their remedies works, he is offered the only other solution the family knows -suicide...
...architect's odyssey, began in 1928, when he left the Bauhaus to set up his own practice in Berlin. The school had pioneered in what is now known as the "international style" of building-lean, elegant structures whose interior steel skeletons allowed architects to create airy and light façades of glass. Breuer took this cold idiom and domesticated it in his first building, a house in Wiesbaden. Flat-topped, generously windowed and raised on stilts above the ground, it used contrasted materials to give a feeling of warmth and porches to extend interior space outward...
...York by that time, his breakthrough came with a major commission in France: the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. With it, he burst out of the Bauhaus box and turned to concrete, becoming more adventurous in its use than any other U.S. architect except perhaps I.M. Pei. He faceted façades with angled, deep-set windows, niches and geometrical shapes-all enlivened by the play of sunlight against shadow. At his IBM research center in La Gaude, near the Côte d'Azur, he elevated the entire building on Y-shaped sculptural columns that a less bold designer...
What primarily motivated Juan Perón was political opportunism, not the making of a new social order. But, he created an ideological façade that promised the people social change, social justice, economic independence from foreign powers and political sovereignty. Perón called this ideology "justicialismo," a "middle way" between Communism and capitalism...
...Venice, according to Professor Pasquale Rotondi, head of Italy's national restoration center, the famed bronze horses on the façade of St. Mark's must be removed to an atmosphere-controlled room in the Marciana Library, "before the season of lagoon fogs" begins in late fall. Their bronze is now too corroded by pollution to remain outside. The same measures, Rotondi insists, are needed to preserve the so-called Doors of Paradise that Ghiberti made for Florence's Baptistery...