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...study by the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the city's Community Development Department states that "penetration of the Square by regional and to a lesser extent national chains...is transforming its general character, raising rents while making it less specific as a place. These operations are attracted by the high volume of business in the Square just as they might be attracted to a particularly thriving shopping mall...
...hospital and as a result humanizes his practice. Says Bigelow, who directed a cleverly variant vampire movie (Near Dark) and one about a gun-loving policewoman (Blue Steel): "I like to make films that are provocative, that can rattle your cage." Haines, who also directed Children of a Lesser God, says, "I'm consistently interested in projects in which the core of the story is communication and the struggles of human beings to connect...
...with a benign Utopia -- Europe's reaction against the horror of war -- whose "spiritual" symbol was glass architecture. Besides the familiar Constructivist icons, such as the sculptor Vladimir Tatlin's wooden model for a giant tower that was to commemorate the Third Communist International, there are fantasies by much- lesser-known artists -- the outstanding one being a German, Wenzel Hablik, whose radiant glass towers and many-colored domes resemble designs for the New Jerusalem...
...made by artists and craftsmen in the '20s. Its focus is the city, and that alone -- so that although it includes Fernand Leger's The Mechanic, 1920, the arcadian strains in '20s French painting, Matisse and Derain, for example, find no place in it. And quite a lot of lesser art does because -- derivative or coarse though it sometimes is -- it has something to say about the pervasiveness of imagery. Much of Weimar-period German art is a crude mix of De Chirico and cartooning, but one doesn't object to seeing it here, although it quickly stales...
...Sevenoaks phenomenon is the latest of hundreds of circular patterns that have appeared in the grainfields of southern England and, in lesser numbers, in the fields of 20 other countries during the past 13 years. And it seemed perfect fodder for Delgado, who now makes a career of investigating and writing about the circles. He has suggested that the circular patterns are created by a "superior intelligence" -- most likely extraterrestrial -- and has co-authored a book called Circular Evidence with another believer, Colin Andrews. It has sold more than 50,000 copies...