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...false bookshelves and secret passageways, Krotz some times appears to be auditioning for the part of James Bond's next artificer. But his improvisations are far more suggestive of a Maxwell Smart rerun. One can almost hear the nasal whine: "The old up-and-in opening-fulcrum-stair-kick-board hiding place, eh, chief?" One significant hiding place is omitted from this complete volume: a place large enough to accommodate both the thief and his victim. It is called the judicial system, with its hidden compartments-the police station, the courtroom and the jail...
Soon the sounds of fighting could be heard throughout the city. Residents of the capital clustered in stair wells, basements and other parts of their homes seeking shelter. Many held portable transistor radios to their ears, trying to determine what was happening. The radio announced total mobilization, exhorting: "Greeks! Arise and fight! We will fight the Turks...
Andrea Bradford's voice is the finest of the whole production and she sings the strongest numbers, "No Crystal Stair," and "A Happy Tomorrow," although the latter song is marred by a cheap-sounding organ background, a problem at several points during the play. Robert Honeysucker is the wizened Old Man, detached from the fast pace of Harlem, able to look at the entire scene with a broader historical perspective. And his recital of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," a short but powerful poem about the black's hard struggle from the shores of the Congo to the banks...
...Opera House. Utzon's podium originated with a 1949 visit to Mexico, where he studied the ruins of Maya architecture: the monumental stairways and levels of buildings like the Temple at Uxmal in Yucatan were to be reflected in the Opera House's huge entrance stair. Finally, vaults and base were to be linked by hung glass walls with plywood ribs, flexing outwards like the primaries of a gull in flight...
...also a demonstration of the bare rudiments of architecture. "I learned about order, order itself. That the brick wanted to be brick and nothing else, the stone stone, the concrete concrete. I just learned it so thoroughly, the orders and the elements. And from there I learned that a stair isn't just something you get out of a catalogue but a very important event in a building. I never forgot such principles. From this I sensed the eternity qualities of architecture. In the beginning lies eternity. It can never come about without the feeling that...