Word: roof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...separated by flimsy, sliding shoji screens. Scawthorn's recommendation: place a few steel braces along the exterior walls, and reinforce one or two interior walls so they can help carry the weight of the second story. ``Last of all,'' he says, ``I would take those heavy tiles off the roof and replace them with the lighter-weight plastic ones available in Japan now.'' All told, the work and materials needed to reinforce a typical Japanese house might cost...
...best part of the museum, as they ought to be. Botta has done them with impeccable taste and has resisted the temptation to make them depend on artificial light. Because the blocks of the museum mass are stepped back, each floor gets its share of filtered daylight through the roof, and the detailing of these skylights recalls the great prototype of Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, still the most beautiful art-display building erected in postwar America. Botta worked for a time in Kahn's firm in the U.S., and the influence shows. Nothing...
...Einstein on the Beach, Wagnerian in length and scope if not in idiom; and the Wagnerian ideal has been evident in much of his later work as well -- in Hydrogen Jukebox's marriage of Minimalism to the poetry of Allen Ginsberg (1990), and in 1,000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988), which combined David Henry Hwang's text and Jerome Sirlin's images...
...Santa Clause, Allen is another all-American befuddled Dad. He plays Scott Calvin, a divorced father who is having trouble communicating with his young son -- until, on Christmas Eve, Santa falls off his roof, and Scott is pressed into finishing the gift-delivery chores. It turns out he is expected to give up his former identity and become Santa for good; over the next few months, he grows fat and acquires white whiskers and white hair. (Is this a Christmas fantasy or a horror film?) Scott eventually reconciles to the idea of spending his declining years at the North Pole...
...effects, such as having flames spew from her mouth when she is upset about an oppressive media representation, became irritating after a while. Nonetheless, the video is relatively short (one hour), fast-paced, and filled with terrific clips from movies including "On the Beach," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Breakfast at Tiffany's." "The Wizard of Oz," "Frankenstein," and "Sunset Boulevard...