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...pieces Mrs. Brown has produced are pleasant enough. On this record, half of them are played by her, and half by pianist Peter Katin, Mrs. Brown's playing is definitely not inspired, in any sense of the word. Pedestrian is a more apt description. The pieces Katin plays are somewhat boring: a "Beethoven" Bayatelle which is just that, a piece of little interest revolving around an absurdly simple little figure; a pensive, delicate, yet only mildly competent "Schubert" Moment Musicale; a "Chopin" Impromptu in F Minor which is rather heavy and plodding; and so on through Lizst, Debussy, and Brahms...
...fascinating experiment in contemplation. We are privileged to observe pieces of a life, to examine what the concept of "significant experience" actually means. If the story isn't always fascinating, if Resnais' idea of a man's secret self is occasionally pedestrian, the film is still intriguing simply as a glimpse of the manner in which a director chooses to re-pattern the vicissitudes of human experience...
...poplar-lined road that traces an almost complete circle from a cluster of old buildings to the outermost playing fields and back again. Then he intercepted the circle with five new academic buildings (a student center, lecture hall, library, administration building and arts center) set along an angular pedestrian "spine." These new buildings gave personality and vigor to the college and landscape, thus resolving Fredonia's great problem of formless anonymity. Moreover, they never turn their backs on their older neighbors; rather the new honor and upgrade the old. It is an architecture of good manners-and should...
...single, continuous warm space that stretches 705 ft. from end to end-a nascent megastructure. Inside, the building is almost column-free and airy, thanks to a system of long, glass-clad trusses on the roof. Outside, one wall of the building gives shape and style to the pedestrian walk, malting it an axis for the campus. The students pay the building a high compliment; they use it, so to speak, continuously...
...California Highway Patrol and bridge authorities, Berkeley's Seiden now knows enough about the Golden Gate jumper to rough in his profile. Typically, he is a man (three out of four jumpers) in his 40s, and a Bay Area resident. Experience has taught observers to rule out the pedestrian who climbs a cable and poises irresolutely before the swan dive. Such behavior usually describes the "pseudo suicide," who does not really mean business; he can be coaxed, if necessary, to climb down...