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...Antonio, two young architects in shorts and T shirts clamber over the crumbling, eroded walls of Mission Concepcion, a church-cum-fortress built by the Spanish in the early 1700s. "These structures are dissolving," says John Schlinke, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia. "The stone is melting...
...Sherman and Director Peter Yates out of plagiarism court. Like the cycle's earlier entries, Krull offers battles, special effects and a hero and heroine with all the humanity of furniture on feet. But there are ingenuities of décor and character here. The Beast's fortress contains vaulted corridors that resemble a vulture's rib cage; his lair is a rococo igloo; walls close in on Lyssa like giant pillows. The senior good guys, notably Ynyr and Cyclops, move with a certain sad majesty. The Cyclops' knowing wink (or is it a blink...
...table top from the house of Mary, Joseph and Jesus in Nazareth. It origins are unknown, but it may date as far back as 6th century Greece or Byzantium. The painting surfaced in Poland in 1382 at the recently founded Jasna Gora (Mountain of Light) monastery, a fortress-like institution located in Czestochowa, about 140 miles south of Warsaw...
...around $32 and a black-and-white TV $160). Rents are negligible or nonexistent. Consumer goods are generally drab and in short supply. Only imported Volvos, Toyotas and Mercedes racing through the quiet streets suggest a world of plenty beyond the walls of Kim Il Sung's socialist fortress. But North Koreans do not publicly acknowledge that possibility. As one movie commentary put it, "Now where can you find such a paradise, good for people to live...
...Plays demonstrate, Kleist was the first great absurdist, obsessed with justice and the black-comic ways in which it can miscarry. The Broken Pitcher centers on a judge who is also a malefactor; in Amphitryon, the great Theban commander rages against an impostor "who wants me . .. out of the fortress of my consciousness." This sense of self as an armed camp is one of many traits that make the playwright seem a contemporary of another great admirer, Bertolt Brecht...