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...like turmoil, architecture is the place to be right now. The last time the field had something like a prevailing style was in the 1970s, at what appeared to be the tail end of Modernism. It was a moment when everybody knew the formula for a successful building--Glass+Steel=Box--and everybody was sick...
...footage to pull the viewer into the interior world of the characters.However, in the less-useful interludes, the film spends an exorbitant amount of time studying the effects of movement, contrasting light and darkness, and other purely aesthetic criterion on the camera. These scenes communicate the emotional and metaphysical turmoil of the characters, in theory, but the balance between visual coolness and purposeful movement of the film definitely shifts toward form over function.Nevertheless, a few of the heavily stylized, minimally scripted scenes do profoundly affect the audience. These scenes are the ones that powerfully pair contrasting music and sound effects...
...forlorn hope! As recent events have again demonstrated, the arrogance of power obscures all reference to the past. How else can one explain the naive belief of Rumsfeld & Co. that they could march into Iraq and, in a few months, pacify a region with a centuries-old tradition of turmoil? Harold Jones Erbach, Germany The Future for Italy's Young Re your report on the under-40s [April 10]: I'm an American who has been living in Italy for more than 20 years and loving it. My daughter earned her degree in chemical engineering two years ago with highest...
...said. As for arriving on campus fresh on the heels of administrative turnover, Rosen said his British employers have taught him well. “You can’t be working in a British university for the last 20 years without being confronted with a lot of political turmoil,” he said. “I’ve learned not to make judgments on those things from the outside.” —Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy. I have looked at foreign policy and interntional relations issues all my life and I've never seen the world in such turmoil. What I'm looking at is whether there are elements within all religions that allow us to work to solve problems rather than using religion as a divisive issue. And I do believe there's enough commonality if we see religion as a practical way to solve problems...