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...overalls displays exactly the right degree of grunge, wear and spattering. Consequently, the presence of these figures becomes almost hallucinatory. "Speaking likenesses" that cannot speak but cannot, at a glance, be readily told apart from their spectators, they lean against the Whitney's patrician white walls or sprawl on its carpet with the air of social intruders. One reacts to them first as people, because of their verisimilitude; then, after one's gaze has gone by them-social protocol discourages staring at people as sculptures are stared at-the double take happens, and because they...
...single day, the downward course of a lifetime. He tells of a man whose life would crumble except for his dreams and whose dreams themselves fall apart at last. And, as so often in O'Neill, Poet has centripetal force and centrifugal wastefulness, giant strength and giant sprawl, sure theatrical instincts and shaky dramatic structure. The present revival at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater is like a tidal wave that seems to purge almost every defect of the play...
Dismal examples of how not to grow are easy enough to find. The magnificent setting of Anchorage, Alaska, for example, has already been tainted by a sprawl of thousands of mobile homes. Much of southern California's coastline is a jagged scar of freeways and factories that bar the way to the sea. Washington, at least, has caught a glimpse of the future and is not at all sure that it works. So has neighboring Oregon, which has decided to throttle back on growth and has developed a master plan requiring its 276 local governments to work out their...
...pictorial equivalent of music-an unbound suite of seven large luminous paintings (33¾ in. by 12½ in.) that spellbind without the use of words. Though Müller is Swiss, his story, unfortunately, is universal: the gradual erosion of a natural setting by urban sprawl. Starting in the spring of 1953, with barefoot farm children in a burgeoning countryside, Artist Müller takes characters and acreage through the incursions of a railroad, the depredations of bulldozer, drill and crane, and, ultimately, in the fall of 1972, to those hallmarks of Western civilization, the discount store...
...five Government, corporate and nonprofit research organizations are located in the park's 5,400 acres of rolling, pine-covered hills. Over 60 buildings, some of them dramatic, futuristic structures like the Burroughs Wellcome headquarters, are widely separated in the woods-with plenty of room to stretch and sprawl. Now there are more Ph.D.s in relation to the population-3,000 engineers and scientists with doctorates-than in any other part of the nation. "This is a sparkplug center, firing the South's vision of itself," says John Tyler Caldwell, former chancellor of North Carolina State...