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Stonecypher and his parents refused to comment on their case or on whether they filed complaints with the Department of Education against colleges other than Harvard. Yale's Acting Director of Admissions Harry M. Levit refused to comment. Officials at Dartmouth and Stanford did not return phone calls...
Stonecypher and his parents refused to comment on their case or on whether they filed complaints with the Department of Education against colleges other than Harvard. Yale's Acting Director of Admissions Harry M. Levit refused to comment. Officials at Dartmouth and Stanford did not return phone calls...
Directed by Ben Levit...
...Levit's objectivity is equally illusory; he too is an artist. His photographs resolve things more sharply than either Piranesi or the eye can, details such as the frescoes in the apse of St. Paul's, the freize of the Temple of Jove the Thunderer. Levit's ruins do not pull weathered marble's trick of fading into the sunny haze of a Roman sky, or the dust of Roman earth. He has set them off against a darkened world by burning the film up to the contour of the monument...
...centuries since Piranesi have demystified both nature and the past modern explorers have excavated the Campo Vaccino (Cow Field), restored the temples and the Colosseum. The Tiber Island has been firmly established as dry land; the Arch of Titus shorn of vines and bushes. Levit's photographs testify to the knowledge and understanding we've gained--and the drama lost. Piranesi, in one of his more imaginative moments, etched a smart temple at Tivoli, surrounded by figures in various melodramatic poses, stalking the ruined stairs, lurking behind the columns. One dark figure assumes a Byronic posture in the doorway...