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DIED. ALDO ROSSI, 66, sublime architect who reworked vernacular forms into designs of haunting beauty; after a car accident; in Milan, Italy. The Cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena, Italy--a colonnaded arcade of chilling austerity--is one example of the poetic use of space that won him architecture's highest honor, the Pritzker Prize...
...autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens..." Tell me, what author could help making that type of writing part of his or her own work? Of course, "like a rocket, the heat tore down her fingertips" may not be as poetic as Poe's words, but the principle is the same. THOM KERR Englewood, Colo...
...sand--all of these, seen in 70-mm and magnificently accompanied in stereo by Maurice Jarre's glittering music, are worlds away from the reduced-version, letterbox format to which they've been downgraded, albeit unavoidably, on video. The desert cinematography isn't as sensuously poetic as that of "The English Patient," which has evoked comparisons; but there's a stark grandeur to its vision that suits the nature of the story far better...
...have participated in the Surrealist Movement in the United States for the last five years, and Face/Off, though there are certain things to be said for it, is not a surrealist film. surrealism is a living, revolutionary, poetic movement uncompromisingly dedicated to the defense of freedom and the marvelous. I demand that in future The Crimson refrain from such egregious falsification. --Daniel C. Boyer Harvard Summer School Student
...that meant something, Teddy Roosevelt was President and SOS had just been adopted as the universal distress signal. Most sportswriters thought the White Sox, known as the Hitless Wonders, needed to send out just such a call against the Cubs, who had won a record 116 games behind the poetic double-play relay of Tinker to Evers to Chance. But funny things happen in baseball, and the Southsiders won the fourth World Series ever played, four games...