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...open courtyards. Hejduk also works at resolving the conflict between a symmetrical form (the nine-square grid) and the asymmetrical demands of a program for a functioning house. At first he conceals the asymmetries within the house; later, he reflects them onto the facades by arranging columns which echo interior walls...
WITH THE installation of Mary Miss's Mirror Way, the Fogg makes one of its all-too-infrequent ventures into the realm of contemporary art. The scaffold-like sculpture, constructed mostly of unfinished two-by-fours, is visually and conceptually anomalous to the neo-Renaissance interior of the museum courtyard...
...environment. The piece is asymmetrical; its axis runs perpendicular to the entranceway of the museum, and the horizontal elements are not aligned with those of the building. The sculpture strains toward an awkward autonology further accentuated by the contrast between its stick like construction and the stone interior of the courtyard...
...naked flesh used in the film; the amount of money needed to waste the talents of such fine performers as Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, and Sir John Gielgud; the amount of money squandered on lavish sets that often look less like ancient Rome than the interior of the Hong Kong...
Along the 7,863-mile Pacific littoral, where "coastline consciousness" is probably higher than anywhere else in the U.S., the Interior Department is planning to open 1.3 million acres on the outer continental shelf to oil exploration. This is sure to set the stage for another classic confrontation between the conflicting needs of safeguarding the environment and extracting vital natural resources. As with most environmental issues, the battle over the coast pits those who would exploit it further against those who would stop fiddling altogether with the littoral and its complex system of wetlands and estuaries. The need for growth...