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...buildings, finished last year, are two developer-constructed houses in, of all places, the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. The clapboard houses, unmistakably American, prove that Rossi practices what he preaches about deference to local styles. Last December construction began on what could be his most relaxed, and among his finest, work: a village-like tropically colored campus for the University of Miami School of Architecture...
...silent features, then 14 talkies beginning in 1930 -- but even in that era her fervid, hypnotic style of acting was an odd anachronism. Except in drag clubs, she inspired no real imitators. But Garbo was more than a camp goddess. She was just the most haunting beauty, and the finest actress, in movie history...
After yielding a first-inning run, Crimson pitcher Mike "Closed" Dorrington (2-2) shut out the Midshipmen in the opener. In one of his finest performances this season, Dorrington went the seven-inning distance with the help of a flawless defense...
...clearest instances of this newfound grit are the two most famous speeches. When Lois Smith, giving the finest performance of a great stage career, says as Ma Joad that she knows "the people" will endure, she offers none of the reassuring faith of Jane Darwell in the film. Her words are instead the hollow attempt of a frightened peasant to calm herself and to reassure a son she expects never to see again. When Gary Sinise as Tom Joad tells her that wherever people are organizing for freedom and a better day, he will be there, he does not ooze...
...would be a shame if anyone were deterred from studying or teaching in one of the finest concentrations at Harvard by the injudicious and inaccurate remarks of those in another department. Peter A. Hall Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy