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...live these days with rock-star architects - Gehry, Koolhaas, Libeskind - hailed as heroic and solitary prodigies, bringing forth great edifices. While it is tempting to lobby for Bawa's inclusion in this pantheon, Robson argues that he "should not be viewed as a lone genius, but rather as someone who operated within a circle of sympathetic friends." In fact, no architect is an island, and several individuals - notably Friend, Danish architect Ulrik Plesner, and artists Barbara Sansoni and Laki Senanayake - influenced Bawa's vernacular experiments. As Robson's title suggests, Bawa's legacy, if not his personal renown, continues...
...Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” Dave Eggers. Big waves of emotion, like “King Lear...
...Dewey Cox Story” plays exactly what you’d expect: another ironically hyperbolic tall-tale comedy that happens to poke fun at other movies…just without Will Ferrell. Reilly can field jokes as Dewey Cox, the loveable dolt who happens to be a musical genius, and his demeanor of perpetual understatement allows for the faith-in-the-underdog mentality that underlies the Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the Line.” But it’s difficult not to long for Ferrell. His comedic presence has, in the past, literally turned...
...That anonymity may soon mutate. In Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters, San Francisco?based writer August Ragone has produced a fond, generously illustrated biography of the tokusatsu (special effects) genius, who died in 1970. It is the first biography to appear in English. With help from Tsuburaya's family and co-workers, as well as stills supplied by his various studios, Ragone provides a monster maven's feast of detail about Japanese moviemaking in the innocent, pre-digital age. "His seemingly simple approach to special visual effects is in fact the result of a master craftsmanship like that seen...
Sasha was not a normal kid. His parents told me he was a genuine child genius. Spoke three languages, did 12th-grade math, played violin and piano - if you read Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game or saw Little Man Tate, you know the type...