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Citing the Holyoke Center promenade and the low-scale face of the Science Center, both of which are "designed to generate street activity," Louis J. Bakanowsky, professor of Architecture, said yesterday that Sert's work stresses "the shape of the city consistent with the high quality of human life...
...Italy's worst earthquake in 65 years. The first shock, which measured 6.8 on the Richter scale, hit in the early evening as most of the country was sitting down to Sunday supper. Thirty-three smaller tremors followed during the night, ranging in intensity from 3.5 to 4.5 (see SCIENCE). From its epicenter at Eboli, near Salerno, the terremoto radiated its destruction through the regions of Campania and Basilicata, a rugged belt of parsimonious countryside between the Apennines and the Tyrrhenian Sea on the ankle of the Italian boot. Though it struck the major cities in its path...
That night, while thousands huddled in open fields or watched special film showings in the city square, the earth began to rumble. A quake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale devastated Haicheng, collapsing buildings, turning bridges into grotesquely twisted heaps and tearing up roads. The death toll could easily have run into six figures. Thanks to the forewarning, it was probably fewer than...
...works in the ICA show reveal the formal similarities of much Dadaist graphic art to contemporary examples. The Dadaists experimented with the nature of graphic communication, mixing typefaces and altering size and scale. Ernst's poster "Dada Zeigt!" (Dada Wins!) uses assorted lettering with unrelated symbols--a rope, a bed, a cow, a housewife. The asymmetric anarchic quality of such compositions also characterizes contemporary New Wave graphics. This aesthetic, which has sprung up alongside of punk music and fashion, is characterized by the juxtaposition of disparate forms, symbols and lettering in designs that often are consciously crooked, random and askew...
Proposition 21/2, passed over-whelmingly by state voters last month, will cut property tax revenues by nearly $15 million in Cambridge next year. City officials have warned of possible large-scale layoffs and cutbacks in city services...