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Nestled in a fertile valley 200 miles east of Johannesburg, the village of Driefontein is a picture of rural contentment. Flower beds front its comfortable houses, cattle browse in lush pastures, and fruit trees abound. But Driefontein is different: it is a so-called "black spot," an area of black settlement surrounded mainly by white farmers. For several years, in keeping with South Africa's policy of apartheid, the government has tried to persuade the 7,000 black farmers of Driefontein to move to black "homelands" in the desolate Kangwane and Kwazulu regions. The blacks have bitterly resisted...
...quote great swatches of Robert Frost verse, or fall innocently asleep in each other's arms. Their ideal world is both a womb and a locker room; no women need apply to this dreamy brother hood. With its soft, silvery lighting, its slow fades and dissolves and a lush score (by Carmine Coppola, the director's father), The Outsiders means to create the greasers' dream world even as it describes the real world in which they live...
...giant stepped pyramid rises eerily out of the lush rice fields of central Java, like some forbidden city in a sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Bristling with statuary and turrets, the imposing edifice sits in stony silence in the gathering light of dawn. But this is not a Hollywood fantasy. It is Indonesia's Borobudur, the world's largest and probably most mysterious Buddhist monument, which will be rededicated this week as a national shrine and tourist attraction after being rescued from decades of neglect...
...Architect Kevin Roche pioneered at the Ford Foundation headquarters in New York City. This eliminates the endless, oppressive corridors of other congressional buildings and lets additional daylight into the offices, which are entered from open galleries surrounding the atrium. Unlike the Ford Foundation's atrium, which sports a lush tropical garden, the Hart Building's inner court is as yet a marble void. Plans for a huge sculpture by Alexander Calder (the last he designed before he died in 1976) were cut from the budget. Something is needed here. Elsewhere, Warnecke has created spots of charm...
...scenes--the three dancing, picnicking on the Hudson, whirling through Coney Island, walking to the top of a floodlit bridge. The sex scenes are carefully elliptical--more so than the book and the Auschwitz sequence, while suggesting horrors, discreetly avoids trying to show the unspeakable. The score is as lush as scenery and plot. The near-perfection with which everything fits together, technically and artistically, may be what's responsible for the slight sense of distance that hangs over this trio's tortured Gothic emotions. But of course, perfection being what it is, that sense doesn't keep Sophie...