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...these attacks reflect a perverse fear of AIDS or the rising intolerance that has caused an increase in hate crimes of all kinds. Still, Hollywood's treatment of gays hasn't helped. With few exceptions, the homosexual characters in movies are creepy misfits or campy caricatures like the ultra-fey wedding consultant played by Martin Short in Father of the Bride. Their antics perpetuate the perception that gays are marginal, dubious people...
...institute is so little known and so anachronistic -- a club, chapel and classroom complex for merchant mariners -- that it seems like a novelistic conceit. Its fey charms evidently inspired James Stewart Polshek as he designed its new quarters. Instead of creating a boringly deferential pseudo- 18th century building, he has both respected tradition and done something entirely original. From a new, neighborly four-story red brick base, Polshek has popped two prow-shaped floors clad in a modernist grid of white enameled metal. Such a building could be tricky and meretricious, but Polshek, one of the finest uncelebrated architects working...
...institute is so little known and so anachronistic -- a club, chapel and classroom complex for merchant mariners -- that it seems like a novelistic conceit. Its fey charms evidently inspired James Stewart Polshek as he designed its new quarters. Instead of creating a boringly deferential pseudo- 18th century building, he has both respected tradition and done something ( entirely original. From a new, neighborly four-story red brick base, Polshek has popped two prow-shaped floors clad in a modernist grid of white enameled metal. Such a building could be tricky and meretricious, but Polshek, one of the finest uncelebrated architects working...
...city government is no laughing matter as Fresno faces new problems like pollution, which has been added to the seasonal scourges -- droughts and freezes -- that always imperil Fresno's huge yields of cotton, grapes, nuts and cantaloupes. The struggle for water is perennial here, as elsewhere in California. Russell Fey, a former city planner in Modesto who now teaches urban studies at California State University, Fresno, thinks the city should prevent "leapfrog" growth by instituting zoning regulations. But the electorate resents regulation; residential water meters are only now being installed in older Fresno homes, in part because voters have been...
...simplicity and deliberately dotty charm, though, Le Cirque is ^ far from fey. Thierree's tricks and clowning have the savor of the music hall, and Chaplin's acrobatics are accomplished with an athletic elegance too tough to be simply precious. Their son James Spencer Thierree, 17, also appears for some of the more elaborate routines and provides bicycle acrobatics of his own, thus making Le Cirque, in every sense, a family event. The elder Thierree has given due consideration to posterity. "With this title," he points out with typical logic, "we can very well continue touring after death...