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...couple, John and Laura Baxter, whose daughter has recently drowned in a pond on their country property. Leaving their surviving son in school, the Baxters depart for Venice, where John is restoring a 16th century church. The movie gives a compelling sense of the city not as a romantic tourist spot, but as a cold, purgatorial place, a labyrinth full of mute threat. It is, as one character describes it, "like a city in aspic at a dinner party where all the guests are dead and gone...
...Monday, the General Services Administration (GSA) issued a revised outline for the environmental statement, incorporating almost point by point recommendations made by the Harvard Square Task Force. The task force had complained that the original report was biased, and ignored the impact of the tourist-drawing museum...
...task force said the report was biased and incomplete and did not adequately provide for the nature of the library as a tourist attraction...
...writing about a proposal for the siting of the museum section of the Kennedy Library. As a Cambridge resident who is familiar with many of the groups who are concerned about the impact of a tourist culture on the Harvard Square area, and as an advocate urban consultant who played a role in the redesign of the Holiday Inn, I have a proposed solution to the problem of the museum building...
Since the environmental impact statement is slowing down the progress of the Kennedy Library; since there is a growing concern that the facility relate to community needs; and since the main tourist pressure comes from the museum facility, why not put the facility in an existing building in an area which can more easily accommodate this influx of tourists--and, in fact, will be better off for it? I am suggesting that the museum facility be placed in the Faneuil Market. I have discussed this idea with a number of community leaders in Cambridge. In the brief time since this...