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...viewer the flavor of life along the Mississippi. Painstaking care had been taken to assure that every minute detail was consistent with the word images of the original book. Taylor made excellent use of the Panavision wide screens by means of some dramatic aerial photography that emphasized the breathtaking width of the Mississippi. But dramatic, breathtaking, and expensive photography cannot carry a narrative motion picture over its rough parts, and herein lies the picture's fatal problem...
...temple was a magnified house, a house could look like a temple. No solution could have been more pleasing to Palladio's Italian clients, who enjoyed their pomp; none could have responded better to Palladio's formal bent. The network of ratios between height and width, void and solid, expressed in the façades of Villa Cornaro and Villa Malcontenta, subtly prepares the visitor for the less consciously felt proportions of the rooms within. For there was nothing improvised in Palladio. His plans-always axial, with lesser rooms grouped symmetrically around a high hall-obey stringent rules...
...cover the canvas completely are not immediately scaled by the weave of the cloth. And in his paintings of this year and last, particularly the Other Flesh series, he employs rollers and sponges with a syrupy acrylic, using the edges built up by rolled paint to create a repeated width across the canvas. These paintings use the rolled edge as internal drawing, uniting form and field, or establish a new kind of painterliness in a surface teased into roughness with sponge or cloth...
...certainly result in oil spillage and leaks from the pipeline-it would traverse three earthquake zones-could endanger the ecology of the arctic tundra. Yet the conservationists' biggest weapon turned out to be a narrow technicality: the required right of way would exceed the legal maximum 54-ft. width. The Administration looked to the Supreme Court to get around that legal scruple, but last week the court refused to review a lower-court decision upholding the law. Now the pipeline proposal will be bucked to Congress, where it may create as big a furor...
...this makes the opposite page look reassuring. Toss in another column in width, a few more inches in length, more frequent publication, United Press service, and the rest, but the editorial page makes the big difference between the Service News and the Crimson. April...