Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that regenerating the city is much harder and slower than the last generation believed, that to work, it must be a building- by-building, street-by-street evolution. The planning for New York's new Battery Park City development, for instance, quite nicely incorporates many of the old ways; visual surprise was designed in, gradual changes of scale were carefully planned, stylistic variety and overall cohesion were both encouraged. "What we've learned," Fitch says, "is that if you want to rejuvenate a city, you have got to be very careful not to throw any kind of tissue away...
...great courtyard filled with wailing eunuchs, dismissed by their ruler; a tennis court, so strangely out of place in these precincts and yet the locale where Pu Yi hears that he has been deposed -- all of this is Bertolucci at his effortless best, a man from whom unforgettable visual metaphors seem to flow of their own accord...
...Most industrial robots are blind. Just like a blind man, they do something silly when something's been moved out of place from where they expect it. With visual control the robot would be able to see where the object was and adjust," said William A. Woods, McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science...
Fitch said the room's design also stands as an acknowledgement of the creators' respect for Harvard Film Archive Curator Vlada K. Petric, senior lecturer of Visual and Environmental Studies, who is helping to arrange the film viewings...
...when Alex breaks into the Gallagher house? Why can't Dan hear the final struggle a floor above him, and why does the bathroom tile floor leak water?) The threat to Ellen's pet rabbit can be smelled three reels away from payoff; that hare is high. Lyne's visual style, with its grab bag of slick thrills and cheap tricks, is clever but unoriginal -- hack chic. And you needn't be a critic to get restless during the longueurs of the film's first hour. Just listen to the crowd. Until Fatal Attraction removes its mask of psychological drama...