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...fact, Mike picks up a lot of friction under the surface of this peculiar foreign place, and wonders, "Had he come to a nation of moody guys?" At the plant where he works, Bill shows Mike some graffiti that assembly-line workers have scrawled in the lavatory: "Our section leader has several flaws." Bill also lets on that Japan has been building a huge offensive army in secret all these years, and advises, "Don't mess with us, Mike. We're not just a bunch of little cassette guys...
Hans Hollein bristles at being called a master of the exquisite small space. He denies that his architecture depends on perfect, peculiar details and even disagrees with the plain truth that his buildings are playful. It may be that Hollein, a Viennese, is habitually defensive about his work because so much of it has been both small scale and high end: jewelry stores, a travel agency, an art gallery. The quirky architect will not have to worry about professional stature any longer. Last week, a few days after his 51st birthday, Hollein was awarded the seventh annual Pritzker Architecture Prize...
...Suzanna Hamilton (Julia) are as tenderly pathetic as the tiny, dilapitated room in which they take place. He is dwarfed by a huge video screen as he sits hunched and writes in his diary, an action that seems both puny and heroic. Throughout the film, Hurt never loses that peculiar combination of hope and fatalistic dread that at the same time motivates and restricts Winston...
...Suzanna Hamilton (Julia) are as tenderly pathetic as the tiny, dilapitated room in which they take place. He is dwarfed by a huge video screen as he sits hunched and writes in his diary, an action that seems both puny and heroic. Throughout the film, Hurt never loses that peculiar combination of hope and fatalistic dread that at the same time motivates and restricts Winston...
...Filly, like any other social scene, has its own peculiar shibboleths. Some of the more useful to know...