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During his first visit to Harvard in November 1959, Le Corbusier was struck by the sudden beauty of a flood of students on intersecting pathways between class periods. This hourly ritual became the basis for the spiral-shaped ramp that appears in the first sketch of what would become the Carpenter Center. This was to be a means of passing through the building as well as “une route touristique” [tourist route], and the diagonal movement of students was to be prompted by bells installed within the building...
...Canadians so damn funny? It's a complex question, but the simple answer is they're better cross-dressers. You have your Dana Carvey, your Mike Myers, but as the first season of their 1989-95 sketch show (A&E Home Video; $59.95) demonstrates, the Kids in the Hall were wigs and shoulders above nearly everyone else...
...Gary Girard (Kevin LaVelle) and tormented by the diabolical Stuart Steadfast (Greg Luzitano), who wants to steal his glory. Stuart’s momentary presence is the best part of this sequence; his cruel, demonic laughter is accompanied by melodramatic flashes of thunder and lightning. The rest of the sketch tends to drag, and by the end, when Bertrand starts talking with the toilet, it has lapsed into sheer baffling nonsense...
...film begins with the end of the 1836 battle: a visual requiem for the dead Americans. Flash back, and then sketch in a trio of heroes: General Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid, his voice dropped an octave into martial mode); rebel warrior Jim Bowie (Jason Patric); and Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), bar-rasslin' legend, Indian fighter and, in this film, world-class country fiddler. Against them is the Mexican general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (Emilio Echevarria), who snipes at what he sees as the Americans' ambition: "We want to rule Mexico. They want to rule the whole world...
Police linked the suspect to Harvard Square at the time of the reported incidents, and Watson wrote that the composite sketch was a “quality match” to the suspect...