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...much post-modern architecture. In reaction to the strict terms of the modern style, many architects now indulge in haphazard eclectisism. He welcomes the return of the figurative in architecture, the use of forms inbued with cultural meaning and associations. He approves, to a certain degree, of the wit and irony of post-modern designs. He worries, however, that an excess of such levity will weaken the impact of the figurative, resulting in "an unconscious trivialization of meaning." He senses a dangerous carelessness in architects who "casually pick up bits and pieces of history." The wit, the irony, the humor...
...sheer energy of Rush's technical imagination, is Peter O'Toole's madcap caricature of a visionary movie director. Things spring magically to life when he strides into the picture, all self-centered, self-conscious magnificence and deified idiosyncrasy. None of the other caricatures have near his stature and wit; indeed Rush makes them all cower in the shadows of his imperious ego, and even then he's always descending from his helicopter into their privacy or shining spotlights into their midnight trysts. He is a perverse god; he loves making grand entrances, sweeping everyone into line within his great...
...many of you newcomers to Boston sports scene have, I fear, never listened to this informative, entertaining talk show broadcast every Sunday night over WHDH. Aptly flanked by Mark Witkin and Jim McCarthy, Eddie Andelman, truly the oracle of the New England sports scene, dispenses wit and wisdom by the barrelful. The best of the many sports talk shows in the area, its only rival nationally is Pete Franklin's nightly diatribe over WWWE, Cleveland...
...shaped in the form of a sonata, with thematic variations expressed through recurring images and lines of dialogue. But this is a ghost sonata, and the specter is that of the old (young) Godard, the director of Breathless and Weekend, who dazzled cinephiles with his visual fecundity and youthful wit. His new film, however confessional, seems clinically detached. Its heartbeat is irregular and indistinct, like signals from a dying star on the other side of the universe.And its message for the human race seems to be: every man for himself, and Godard against...
...temperament Gainsborough I was an ideal society portraitist. "His conversation was sprightly, but licentious," one of his friends remembered. "The common topics, or any of a superior cast, he thoroughly hated, and always interrupted by some stroke of wit or humour ... so far from writing, [he] scarcely ever read a book-but, for a letter to an intimate friend, he had few equals." He loved music, and entertained his friends by playing the harpsichord and the viola da gamba. "Liberal, thoughtless, and dissipated," he called himself, and admired (without particularly envying it) the application of sturdier and more evenminded talents...