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...some musty old theater and to design a glass-walled new "culture center," most architects would rejoice and turn to their drawing boards. Not Chicago's Harry Weese. Though he is one of the nation's most talented architects, he goes out of his way to preserve landmark buildings. "We do it because it has to be done," he explains. "Fine old buildings give our cities character and continuity. They give us a sense of stability...
...Harder they Come is in some sense a landmark film. Its camera movement and its heavy use of rock are inherited from films like Gimme Shelter. Its attempt to abstract from its music, and the variety of sounds it is able to utilize, mark it as an important work. What makes it excellent, and almost great, is its ability to channel the volatility and emotion of the music, without allowing sound to overshadow the purpose of the film...
...finished, and so, too, are virtually all other similar mass suits. Noting that many such suits had been brought as "legalized blackmail" to force settlements from companies unwilling to face the cost or risk of fighting the actions, Federal Judge Harold Medina, who wrote the decision, called it "a landmark." Replied Mark Green, a legal activist who works with Ralph Nader: "I'd call it a land mine...
...landmark in American comic writing, Portnoy is not the final assimilation of the American Jewish novel. It is a complete cannibalization of it into the American Jewish anti-novel. Isaac Singer may continue to write marvelous stories about immigrant Jews; Saul Bellow may continue to chant the prayer for the dead over our decaying cities. But it is doubtful that anyone can ever write about the American Jewish family again without having his work ruefully compared with Portnoy's grotesque shadow...
Save Hunt Hall, if only as an architectural landmark in "Historic Harvard Yard." The University's megalithic building policy has left little space for the style and grace of a Hunt Hall. If the space is absolutely necessary, might I suggest building on the present site of Sever, University Hall, Holden Chapel, the President's House, or, to be facetious, Gund Hall? Daniel Kerlinsky