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...spectacular director who masterfully designs long takes and exciting compositions. He enjoys the metaphorical blank screeen, toys with soundtrack blasts and whispers with the control of a superb cinematic technician. One shot, a wide landscape that turns Allen's dancing silhouette into a contemporary fiddler on the roof, is absolutely gorgeous. Allen's expert eye and ear are matched by the steady hand of Gordon Willis (who shot Manhattan) behind the camera...
...PETER EISENMAN pointed out in an essay on the houses, the project represents a development of certain general themes. Walls and roofs function as planes compressing space. Hejduk alleviates the tension within the box-like shape by puncturing the surface of the walls with glass windows or cutting away the roof to open courtyards. Hejduk also works at resolving the conflict between a symmetrical form (the nine-square grid) and the asymmetrical demands of a program for a functioning house. At first he conceals the asymmetries within the house; later, he reflects them onto the facades by arranging columns which...
...three bodyguards, had traveled a mere five blocks when a Chevrolet pickup truck pulled up alongside, and unleashed a hail of automatic rifle fire. As the bodyguards returned the fire, a bazooka rocket, launched from the porch of a nearby house, hit the Somoza limousine broadside, tearing away the roof. The dictator, along with his companions, was killed instantly...
...hoods, Abernathy and company have suggested installing them in only one floor of Conant Hall--one of the Chem Lab buildings--before making any firm decisions. They had the same idea in mind when they suggested last summer's Thayer Hall regulations, Abernathy says. Aside from insulating Thayer's roof, replacing its incandescent lighting with fluorescent lights, and installing smaller showerheads, the renovation teams equipped each room with thermostatic controls, Leahy says. Abernathy says he believes the new heating procedure will eliminate excessively hot or cold rooms; if it proves cost- and energy-efficient, the other Yard dorms may follow...
Miss also tricks the viewer by setting up apparently ordinary situations and then altering them. The effect is somewhat like the Escher prints in which water flows uphill, straight columns bend, and roofs and ceiling invert on each other. Mirror Way at the Fogg is an elaborate experiment in such deception: pathways are blocked, stairs run up into floors, a ladder leads up to a slatted roof which then leads nowhere. In short, the structure is illogical--it feigns functionalism and yet refuses to function...