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...this comic opera of a structure--and thousands of its cursed cousins of modern architecture--made their regrettable appearances on the scene is the subject of Tom Wolfe's latest book. In From Bauhaus to Our House, Wolfe asks the devastatingly simple questions that modern architecture has never been able to answer. Most importantly, Wolfe asks why the "boxes" on which almost all modern work is based, continue to be built when no one likes them. Not the architects. Not the builders. And especially not the people who live or work in them. Yet the glass boxes, the brick piles...
...given shot. While the image remains intact, her voice, satirizing the dramatic situation or directly addressing the audience, comes from off the screen. She second-guesses our reading of the film ("I'll bet you're saying, 'This is where she's going to mess up.' Right? Wrong."), providing comic relief within an otherwise somber thematic structure. As in reality, it's not safe to assume what will come next...
Opera's great comic composer had a serious side
...popular impression of Rossini as a composer of comic operas has not changed much since Beethoven. "Give us more Barbers," the mighty German is supposed to have advised the young Italian, and succeeding generations have endorsed Beethoven's opinion. The creator of Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola and L 'Italiana in Algeri is usually considered a deft musical comic whose work sparkles with wit and high spirits...
DIED. James Raymond, 64, illustrator for more than 40 years of the comic strip Blondie, which brings the antics of Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead to more than 1,800 newspapers in 55 countries; of cancer; in Boynton Beach, Fla. Raymond was 17 when he started working as an assistant to Chic Young, creator of Blondie, but not until Young died in 1973 and Raymond formed a collaboration with Young's son Dean did his name appear on the strip...