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...landscape architect said he hoped the Quad project, tentatively scheduled for unveiling February 5th, would be more than a sculpture. It could be "a simple maze with a real passage way," said Van Valkenburgh. "I want to make a place for people to separate themselves from their preoccupations...
...might be fun to do something with salvaged Christmas trees" to form a sort of hedge inside parts of the maze,Van Valkenburgh...
Another puzzle that the exhibit depicts the long history of is the dexterity puzzle. This very simple puzzle--with four balls in a circular maze--caused a craze in the 1880s almost on the scale of the Rubik's Cube fad a century later. The object was to put the four balls in the center of the maze, or place the "pigs...
Indeed, Bem has nothing but his faith to guide him through a maze in which every side is trying to frame every other, and terrorists emulate the tyrants they deplore. Is he being menaced by the sinister "raincoats" of the government or by the radicals within his own church? Who is threatened most by his unbending faith? What is the price of compromise? And who is using whom, and why? The confusion is only deepened as Bem meets government officials who are as kind as clergymen, and churchmen as murderous as politicians...
Only one of the proposals has satisfied city regulators so far, but those farther behind in the bureaucratic maze still hope to start construction...