Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bible: The Vision of Ezekiel: Elie Wiesel. The Fascination with Jewish Legends series, Ballroom of Boston University's George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth...
Thomas Jefferson, author of our blueprint for independence and designer of Monticello and the University of Virginia, said it confidently: "Architecture is my delight, and putting up, and pulling down, one of my favorite amusements." Heirs to the Palladian vision are more subdued. The modern couple who decide to build a house had better check their marital foundations first. For his part, the architect must patiently extract straight lines from his clients' tangled desires. He must also establish a working truce with his natural enemy, the builder. Then there is the money, probably the largest amount most people will ever...
...most impressive are the Wild Things. Standing nine to twelve feet tall and made of Lycra, a synthetic fabric, stretched over an aluminum frame and adorned with yak hair, they are remarkably lifelike and utterly faithful to Sendak's vision. Actors inside the costumes manipulate the mouths and arms by means of levers, while technicians in the audience control the movements of the eyes and noses. (The singers who provide the voices of the creatures are miked offstage.) Even jaded adults get a joyful frisson when Moishe, Tzippy, Bruno, Bernard and Emil come bouncing onstage, rolling their terrible eyes...
Cooper Labs, the Palo Alto firm that acquired the Pinkham in 1969, continues to market the compound in Puerto Rico through Cooper Vision Pharmaceuticals...
Berenice Abbott: Vision of the Twentieth Century: MIT Museum Building, 265 Mass Ave., Cambridge, Weekdays: 9--5, Saturdays: 10--4, through...