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...latest "ruin" was dedicated-Yale's new Art and Architecture Building, the most daring contribution in the entire Yale scheme. Rudolph works in the very building that he has designed and, as he says, "it's a very disconcerting experience." So is his building. A massive rack of rafters, the Art and Architecture Building staggers out by layers to shut off the vista up New Haven's Chapel Street. From the street there appear to be nine stories, but the inside is shelved off into 36 different levels, with ceilings ranging from seven feet to 28 feet...
...reached the same conclusion, it would serve as a downright invitation to them to try. If the U.S. concedes unchallenged conventional superiority to the Russians, argued former Secretary of State Dean Acheson before a German-Ameri can Club meeting in Bonn last week, the Russians might be able to rack up a series of small but important "profits" in Europe, "without setting off a nuclear response...
...really astute Filene's Basement shopper never purchases anything until it has reached the bottom plateau of markdowns. To accomplish this, one simply pushes the article to the bottom of the pile, the back of the rack, etc., and then watches the article until it has reached the desired price...
Elvis Presley used to walk in, sweep $1,000 worth of clothes off the rack, and walk out (Sy democratically keeps racks for people who make less than $100,000 a year). Sy finally convinced Presley that he ought to stand still for fittings. Elvis stood-until Sy told the world that Elvis wore no underwear. Elvis sulked for a while, but he came back, wearing underwear...
French Playwright Anouilh has too often been dismissed as a kind of verbal dandy. Yet his underlying vision of life is dark and inconsolable. Anouilh's characters suffer with a quip on their lips while stretched on a rack that is the distance between the way things are and the way they want them to be. Anouilh is not interested in either ex posing or extolling his characters. He simply wants to catch them, and the audience, in the cruel toils of the human situation, masked, as it always is, with deceptive everyday smiles. Of The Rehearsal...