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...talking two centuries of pure American spirit--formless and weightless but as powerful as our arsenals, the stuff of thumping pulse and shiny eyes and the voice of glory raised high by horns and reeds. The U.S. Marine Band, a band now judged by experts to be the best the world has ever produced, turned 200 this past weekend. On Friday the drums shook the South Lawn of the White House as President Clinton paid tribute. The next evening the piccolos rode the heavens in a Kennedy Center concert attended by the men and women who run this country...
...Prof. Bois reads from a new book, Formless: A User's Guide. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass...
...codes became even more restrictive so as to separate most aspects of life from each other. Today, Kunstler says, "What zoning produces is suburban sprawl, which must be understood as the product of a particular set of instructions.... [This] model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess...
Rouse built one of the first enclosed shopping malls, in Glen Burnie, Maryland, in 1958 (he is even credited with first calling them "malls"). But he soon grew disenchanted with suburban sprawl and the unplanned chaos of most cities--"formless places without order, beauty or reason, with no visible respect for either people or the land." His solution was the planned city of Columbia, Maryland, built on 14,000 acres of farmland he had acquired. Instead of impersonal malls and isolated housing developments, the town (current population 84,000) has nine village centers, 78 miles of foot and bike paths...
...Murder of Crows. With beautifullypoetic language, Mac Wellman's play provides astunning surrealistic exploration of thetransformation of family. The characters musttraverse a formless maze of shoes, weather andcrows in their search for something substantive tobelieve in. With untraditional staging,unconventional sets and unusual costuming, theproduction will capture audiences in Wellman's ownfictional world. Loeb Experimental Theater, 7:30p.m. Free.3 March Friday