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...Their intent is not to reproduce any particular old-fashioned place. Rather, Duany and Plater-Zyberk have meticulously studied the more-than-skin-deep particulars of traditional towns and cities from Charleston to New Orleans to Georgetown, and of the great prewar suburbs, such as Mariemont, Ohio. They've looked at how streets were laid out, how landmarks were placed, the intermingling of stores and houses, the rough consistency of buildings' cornice lines and materials. They've measured the optimal distances between houses across the street and next door, figured out just what encourages walking (narrow streets, parked cars, meaningful...
None of these films are Citizen Kane -- what is? -- but they come close to the spirit and intent of that eternally young masterpiece. They treat film technique as a living language; they taunt, dazzle, delight. Best of all, they seem ready to spawn a receptive audience. On a spring afternoon in Manhattan, hundreds of smart-setters crowd the lobbies of the Film Forum and the Angelika, downtown temples of alternative film. Poison and Paris Is Burning are sold out hours in advance. The atmosphere is festive, with the feeling that something good might happen inside. The movies, all movies, could...
...Cortez and His Troops, 1848, as a celebration of Christian virtue conquering Aztec barbarism. But the image is far more melancholy and ambiguous than that: the Spanish conquistadors are presented as brutes, one flinging a baby from the temple top, another tearing loot from a corpse; and Leutze's intent to provoke pity for the Aztecs is summed up in an upside-down torch, nearly out, which lies on the steps in the foreground, an adaptation of the classic funerary image of the reversed torch of extinguished genius. Even mediocre artists like Leutze, it seems, can sometimes be a little...
...despite denials from his office of any intent to run, New York Gov. Mario Cuomo is also considered likely to make a bid for the White House...
...vital clue was the fact that the victim was bound and killed with items found in the apartment. This showed that the rapist was inexperienced -- someone, perhaps, in his early 20s. Most likely his initial intent was rape, not murder. He blindfolded his victim and may have chosen to kill her because the blindfold slipped. Still, despite his inexperience, there were no signs of panic, though he took great risks in attacking on a Sunday during the day. He remained coolly in control, deliberating and improvising as he went along. In short, the killer was young, highly intelligent, probably with...