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Architectural historian Douglass Shand-Tucci '72, author of Built in Boston, a book on area architectural history, said yesterday the University should have known better than to tear down such an important building without considering its past...
...just expect a little more than this from Harvard," Shand-Tucci said. "It's just getting to be monumentally embarrassing that the administrators are such philistines...
...Shand-Tucci, who served as a tutor in Eliot House during the 80's and wrote a number of articles on Harvard architecture for Harvard Magazine, said he fears the destruction of the cage is part of a trend of neglect for architectural history at the University...
Citing the controversial additions to Memorial Hall, the decision to divide the Freshman Union's great space into separate offices and now the decision to demolish the cage, Shand-Tucci said: "History is important to Harvard. Even the crudest person would realize that it's not very good for Harvard to be dumping on its history in this...
...half-century ago, this figure was a revelation; people hadn't seen criminal lunacy of this kind on the screen before. What's most effective about the new Kiss of Death is Tucci's marvelously slimy prosecutor. This character was once a symbol of society's rectitude. Now he's as hard and amoral as the gangsters, someone we snicker at knowingly. He, and our reaction to him, may be the scariest thing about this movie-scarier than Cage's performance. Or the good reviews for Caruso's nonperformance...