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...best building to appear in New York City in years. (It may also be a first sign of new hope for the city's beleaguered skyline, overbuilt with middling boxes. Major additions are now promised or under way from a long list of architects of Foster's caliber, including Frank Gehry, Fumihiko Maki, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.) What Foster has created is a 46-story notched glass tower covered with a webwork of triangles, called a diagrid, in off-white stainless steel. That serpentine frame is both structural--it supports most of the building's weight--and delightful...
...Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right through the aftermath of the 2004 election. In its concentration on the Air America stint, the film inevitably covers much the same material as last year?s Left of the Dial. But it?s a frank-seeming portrait of a man who can always attract a crowd of autograph seekers, even at the Republican National Convention of 2004. (Franken takes it in stride, noting, ?In this country, celebrity trumps ideology.?) He is a kind of crucial figure, for he straddles a span that continues to shrink...
...film festival would be incomplete without studies of filmmakers. The TFF had at least three: of Roberto Rossellini and his part-time muse Ingrid Bergman, and of two auteurs who were so "indie" they were nearly isolated: Robert Frank and Jack Smith. I skipped the Rossellini movie, though it was made by the wonderful Canadian zany Guy Maddin, because I heard that some members of the Rossellini family were outraged by it, and I was not in a mood to take sides between two groups I respect. In Robert Frank: Leaving Home Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank, director...
...Back when Frank made that documentary, one word in its title (not Blues) was verboten in the American media. But at least it was allowed to be shown, sporadically. Jack Smith had worse luck. In 1964, the year Lenny Bruce was convicted of obscenity after a New York stage appearance, Smith?s pansexual phantasmagoria Flaming Creatures was busted by the NYPD. It was eventually banned in 22 states and four countries; as late as 1968, Lyndon Johnson?s Attorney General was impounding prints of the movie...
Just ten days after the official retirement of longtime Harvard track and field coach Frank Haggerty ’68, Director of Athletics Bob Scalise announced the hiring of Jason Saretsky as Haggerty’s replacement, effective July 1. Saretsky, the associate director of the track and field program at Iona College, is a 1999 graduate of Columbia University. In college, he starred as a two-time All-Ivy runner and Ivy League Heptagonal champion in the 3200-meter relay. In five years at Iona, Saretsky led the Gaels to four straight top-10 finishes at the NCAAs...