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...this year one senior wrote her thesis on Alcott. Why is there such a deep concern about what children read? Children’s literature seems to have some mythic power of shaping the minds of tomorrow. To some extent this power is real: my conception of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is still largely based on its portrayal in “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.” And because of the medium’s power, children’s literature today has become an amalgamation of commercial interests, political correctness...
...Maki’s projects now include Tower 4 of the new World Trade Center in New York City, the new United Nations building in Toronto, and the Media Lab Extension at MIT, among others. In Tokyo alone, he has built 30 works, including the Spiral, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, and the TV Asahi. “His work is grounded in modernist tradition, but it is always in its time fresh and contemporary,” said Toshiko Mori, chair of the GSD’s department of architecture. She said Maki’s buildings in Tokyo provide...
Walking to a preview screening last week of Grindhouse, I got a whiff (fetid, of course) of the exploitation-movie past. The screening was on 12th Street in Manhattan's East Village, and my walk took me along 14th Street past a prime grind house, the Metropolitan Theatre - or rather past the hole in the ground where the Metropolitan once stood. There used to be a film stills shop next door: Movie Star News, whose proprietor, Irving Klaw, supplemented his income by making and selling films of bondage princess Bettie Page...
...That was in the '50s. By the '70s the Metropolitan had become a showcase for hard-core, and that refers to both the film fare and the clientele. As recalled by Jimmy McDonough, the Suetonius of sleaze, the Metropolitan was "a cavernous, ancient ex-vaudeville hall where customers searching for strange flesh skulked through a dark, Lysol-doused passageway hidden behind a flickering screen of endless porno...
...Laughing) A guy from the Metropolitan Museum and I just decided that the position should be the Dr. Ruth position...