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Then began his years of high creativity. He designed the Dymaxion House, an easily transported structure with roofs hung from a central mast and with outer walls of glass. He sought to give the design to the American Institute of Architects, which haughtily rejected all such "peas-in-the-pod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man Who Believed in Mankind | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

Drawn from "The Joy of Sex" and "The Joy of Cooking," Moffat's introduction begins with columns of words of abstract terms about reading in French, sex acts and objects, and ways of preparing mushrooms. Affirmation Armpit About Babel Bathing A la Schoener Babil Big toe Bisque and clam Bords...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Saints, Proust and Baseball | 6/8/1983 | See Source »

Early on, the movie shows the none-too-subtle difference between Lianna and her husband. Theta, their eight-year-old daughter, refuses to finish her peas and demands to know why she must. Her father explains. "Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to clam up and eat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coming Out | 3/15/1983 | See Source »

Interminable scenes of Lianna alone in her bare apartment are highlighted by the strains of sentimental love-songs. Director Sayles heightens the effect by shooting from above, making the character seem trapped and helpless. Neither insightful nor original, the work is fundamentally boring. Sayles heightens this effect too, one hopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coming Out | 3/15/1983 | See Source »

WHETHER INACCESSIBILITY is a weakness in such a show seems rather a moot question; the debate this spring may be waged in the Loeb box office, but presumably no audience reserves the right to be conventionally enthralled or illuminated, as long as a production can pique the senses and stay...

Author: By Amy E. Schwarnz, | Title: Space Odyssey | 5/6/1982 | See Source »

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