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World-renowned architect Minoru Yamasaki used his designs for William James Hail, built in 1963, as a testing ground for his World Trade Towers in New York City. Although the 15-story edifice has been praised for its slender beauty, a 1973 survey of Cambridge architecture called it a sore thumb in its current location...
...film, a handsome, typically perverse antidrama called Detective, was booed at ; its gala screening, and as he was about to walk into a press conference, the director received a tart surprise: a pie in the face. The culprit was, reportedly, a man outraged by Godard's previous film, Hail Mary, a somewhat irreverent modernization of the nativity story (Mary is portrayed as a cabdriver's girlfriend and is shown in the nude) that earned a rebuke from no less a reviewer than Pope John Paul...
Based on Voltaire's eponymous novel, Candide follows the loss of innocence of four young characters, who hail from the German town of Westphalia. This quarter features the tantalizing servant girl Paquette (Leslie Blumenthal), and Candide (Mark Meredith), the poor bastard cousin of both the narcissistic Maximilion (David Chase) and of the beautiful Cunegonde (Nan Hughes). All four are under the tutelage of the wise, omnipresent, and somewhat jaded Pangloss played superbly by Jon Tolin Pangloss also serves as the show's magnificent narrator--Voltaire in a similar vein to Salieri's narration in the stage production of Amadeus. From...
These are incantations, summoning up a joyous past from deepest grief for a vanished world. Alexander's celebrations recall a poem by his brother that begins, "Violently the spring bursts into Moscow houses." In the poem, the poet and his friends meet to hail the season. Yet Boris adds: "Our evenings are farewells/ Our parties are testaments/ So that the secret stream of suffering/ May warm the cold of life." The party is long over, but Alexander's book still serves the same high purpose...
Panned by some critics and damned by the church, Jean-Luc Godard's new movie, Hail Mary, is naturally packing in scandal-loving French moviegoers. Since it opened last month, the film has been banned briefly (a judge lifted the censorship), and demonstrators have jostled and insulted ticket holders in line. The reason for the fuss is the film's plot, a contemporary version of the virgin birth. Mary is the outspoken, truculent daughter of a gas-station manager; Joseph is a taxi driver who at the news of her pregnancy mutters about how good her other lovers must have...