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...look like anthropomorphic Latin American pottery. His subjects turn into jugs with ears, stylized piñatas bursting with human presence. With forceful immediacy, as if cartooning from a reproduction of a Renaissance fresco, his simplified images reflect the innocent expressionism of old Spanish colonial art and the sunlit geometries of its architecture...
Much of the medieval mood depended on lighting. The architect of Hilles, however, has reversed the ancient contract between the dim interior and the brilliantly sunlit yard by over-lighting the building and darkening the windows. There is no reason why Cliffies should sit in medieval obscurity, but the fluorescent lighting is so even and so intense, and the light sources so well concealed behind honeycomb lenses that there is no direction to the light, no modulation...
Objects seem flat and stacked on one another--nothing gives a sense of space or depth. Smoked windows, too, promote the feeling of the unreality of space. They tend to equalize tones while preserving the hues of a sunlit landscape, reducing the view to a colored tapestry hanging on the wall...
Died. George P. Vierheller, 84, director of the St. Louis Zoo from 1922 to 1962, a latter-day Noah who transformed his domain from a dreary bar-and-cage animal prison into a bright parkland with moated outdoor bear pits (an idea imported from Germany), sunlit monkey houses and aviaries, and circus-style animal acts, all of which set a new style for zoos in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...
...lengthen on her lawn and the commercials for virile laundry detergents (Boost!, Blast!, Fist!, Kick!, Sneer!, Guts!) ricochet around the homemaker's uncleaned living room, sloth can easily be accounted for. As for wrath, that depends. Will she one day wax wroth when she suddenly realizes how many sunlit hours have been spent before the tube? Will she rise and turn off the set? Or is she trapped forever in the flickering world of vicarious fun and games, scandal and sex? Tune out tomorrow...