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Buell recently published a book about literary interpretation and attitudes towards the non-human environment titled "The Environmental Imagination." Levine has just issued "The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright," a work which shares the same subject as his popular Core class, Literature and Arts...
When I took Literature and Arts B-33: "Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Architecture" last semester, we studied the United Nations headquarters in New York City as an example of the architect Le Corbusier's work. Driving past the U.N. this summer, I noted the characteristic window-walls and boxy shape. I was proud to have learned something useful in a Core class; I now had an erudite factoid for future cocktail-party...
...investigation of eight letter bombs disguised as musical Christmas cards has turned toward the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas that is home to Mohammad Salameh, one of four people convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. "We are treating it as a terrorism matter," FBI spokeswoman Susan Lloyd said. The bombs discovered Thursday, carrying a postmark of Alexandria, Egypt, were mailed in plain, white, 5 1/2 by 6 1/2 envelopes with computer-generated addresses and no return addresses. Four went to the Washington office of an Arabic newspaper, Al Hayat, at the National Press Building, and one was found...
...other person Madonna managed to win over was Andrew Lloyd Webber. (He and Rice had sold the rights to Evita but retained approval of the casting.) In 1993, when Madonna was involved in an earlier effort to make the film, Lloyd Webber was quoted as saying she was too old to play Evita. "What I said was that by the time anybody gets around to making the movie, she'll be too old," he now explains. Vocally, he admits, Madonna did not come to the role with the powerhouse pipes of such stage Evitas as Elaine Paige and Patti LuPone...
...maintained his confidence even after a disastrous initial recording session, when Madonna was forced to launch into the show's biggest number, Don't Cry for Me Argentina, backed by an oversize, 84-piece orchestra whose members had never before played together. Lloyd Webber was upset with the musicians, Parker had first-day jitters and Madonna went home in tears. "I was so nervous," she says, "because I knew that Andrew had had reservations about me, and here I'm singing the hardest song in the piece. And all of a sudden there with everybody for the first time...