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...CITY BUILDER by George Konrád Translated by Ivan Sanders Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 184 pages...
This habit of skipping past the physical toward the philosophical makes The City Builder an altogether less-urgent narrative than The Case Worker. The bureaucrat hero has evidently led an interesting, if calamitous life, but he strews the details so negligently through his thoughts that only the most vigilant reader can piece them together. Konrád tries to atone for such cold impersonality by giving his builder a warm, strenuously rhetorical prose style (gracefully rendered by Translator Ivan Sanders). The effect is often striking. Konrád's metaphors can go off like depth charges: "Marble-faced generals...
Ozymandias, as the Greeks called Ramses II, was a compulsive builder of temples, palaces and statues. But Ramses, who reigned in the 13th century B.C., was not the only Egyptian ruler with an edifice complex; every pharaoh, from 3,000 B.C. on, helped assure his immortality by leaving behind monuments of many kinds and shapes to his greatness. For many years the temple complex at Karnak has stood out as one of the most remarkable of these works...
...Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, Actor Mark Hamill scooted over Tatooine in a weathered aircar. In his next picture, he settles for more down-to-earth transportation. Stingray stars Hamill as a high school hot-rod builder and Annie Potts as a hippie hooker who jumps into his passenger seat. Hamill got a few bruises from his Stingray stunts and a brief scare from a California cop. Says Hamill: "We were horsing around on Van Nuys Boulevard, and a cop came over and told us to get out of the Stingray. When he saw the camera and realized we were...
Delays in meeting the complex rules, which must be complied with before building can start, boost costs. Says New Jersey Builder Philip Azzolina: "Two or three years ago, you took the architect's blueprint for a house to the local authority, and while you waited it was approved or rejected. If it was approved, it was stamped on the spot; you then paid the fee and got the building permit. Now you submit the plan, and in some towns it takes a month to get it approved and permission to build. Before a blueprint is passed...