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...ruins, the access to the Brandenburg gate is framed with more ruins, and in many places restored apartment houses are only islands in the rubble. Even on Karl Marx A ee, the town's main street, one has the feeling that the new, tawdry apartment houses are merely a Potemkin Village. They are surrounded everywhere by ruins...
...Rome, where Pope Innocent X's portrait hangs in the Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, Bacon has never gone to see it. The gum-baring shriek that gapes out of so many of his portraits is copied from a still from Sergei Eisenstein's film of 1925, The Battleship Potemkin, in which a horrified nurse is shot point-blank through her pince-nez. Why these subjects? "They haunt me," Bacon replies...
...pocket a little wedding-cake bride and groom and placed the pair on top. "Twittering Aviary." Because of this obsession with façade effects, Yamasaki has been denounced and defended with increasing vigor. If placed all together, say his critics, his buildings would make a kind of Potemkin village where heaven knows what might be going on behind the lovely surface. What the buildings mainly lack for these men is a sense of force. By splitting the McGregor building down the middle with the glass gallery, says Yale's Art History Professor Vincent Scully Jr., Yamasaki has produced...
Gone are the days of Potemkin when crowds swirled down the Odessa steps in a millrace of fluidity. Like Rembrandt, Eisenstein ended his career in a vein of classicism, but unlike Rembrandt, he worked in a medium that does not prosper when it gives up movement for stasis and symmetry--even when that symmetry ascends to such sublime heights as Ivan the Terrible, Part...
...clerical error, the CRIMSON advertised Potemkin, the first film in the M.I.T. Russian Film Festival, for Friday, Oct. 27 instead of Saturday, Oct. 23. All films in the series are on Saturday evenings. We regret the Inconvenience caused to patrons who went to M.I.T. on Friday because of our error...