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Wednesday, Feb. 19: Vincent And Theo at3 and 7:40 p.m. Les Enfants Terribles...
This is precisely the premise that under-writes two important new books on architecture and garden design: Vincent Scully's Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade, and a collection of essays edited by Monique Mosser and Georges Teyssot entitled The Architecture of Western Gardens. Both present a formidable facade to the reader. They presume an acquaintance with the vocabulary of the study of architecture (or at least the willingness to acquire one), and are quite expensive, even for "art books" ($40.00 and $135.00 respectively...
...Vincent Scully, Professor of the history of art emeritus at Yale University and one of this century's most penetrating and influential writers on architecture, offers Architecture as an eloquent synopsis of a distinguished career. It covers the familiar terrain of the history of Western architecture (from the Pyramids of ancient Egypt to Maya Lin's Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C.), while incorporating a brief discussion of the architecture of pre-Colombian North America and the ancient Near East...
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When Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo, bid $100 million to buy the Seattle Mariners baseball team last week, baseball commissioner Fay Vincent all but dismissed the offer, saying it was "unlikely that foreign investors" would win approval. Although by week's end Vincent had softened his position, his initial reaction reflected the nation's mood. In Japan- battered Michigan, where antagonism runs deep among autoworkers, U.A.W. Local 900 in Wayne made its own small stand for America last week, pushing foreign cars to a back parking lot at the local Ford plant. Around the nation, companies are offering incentives...