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...annual Pritzker Prize--$100,000 plus a gold medal--is by far the most prestigious award in architecture today. It is like the Nobels for literature or for the promotion of peace, though not as hotly debated, there being no architectural equivalent to Dario Fo--still less to Rigoberta Menchu. It is given not for promise but to uphold the ideal of excellence. Twenty men (but no women) have received it since Philip Johnson got the first one in 1979; they range from Mexico's Luis Barragan to Italy's Renzo Piano, from Britain's James Stirling to America...
...brah, so lemme show dese haoles how fo' speak pidgin," Jeff Hayashida (one of the emcees) begins. "If you don't know what pidgin is, it's kinda like everything I saying dat you don't understand...
...name is Dario Fo, a 71-year-old Italian playwright who produces politically-oriented and often subversive comedy ? kind of like Samuel Beckett meets Tom Stoppard. His most popular plays include "Death of an Anarchist," "Mistero Buffo" ? which harks back to medieval mystery plays with its single performer and religious theme ? and "Elizabeth I," described as "the play Shakespeare never wrote...
...Fo, who was not on the short-list of any critic, was a surprise choice ? but that in itself should not be a surprise: The first Nobel Literature Prize was awarded in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme over Leo Tolstoy. The Academy cited Fo for his ability to "simultaneously amuse, engage and provide perspectives." Fo's immortality is not yet assured, however ? after all, who remembers Sully Prudhomme...
...Harvard defense, perhaps the best in Division I-AA, was simply overpowering for 60 minutes. The Crimson shut down the Tiger running attack to the tune fo 54 yards and pressured Princeton quarterback Brett Budzinski from all angles...