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...first step in the "Year of the Quad" celebration, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Michael R. Van Valkenburgh at the Graduate School of Design is designing a series of 7-foot high wire mesh walls that will be iced nightly...
...Valkenburgh, who was featured in yesterday's New York Times, has been researching the use of ice in permanent art since 1980 when he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Endowment was interested in research on ice art because currently "there's no technical information on it," Van Valkenburgh said at yesterday's planning meeting in Cabot House...
...landscape architect said he hoped the Quad project, tentatively scheduled for unveiling February 5th, would be more than a sculpture. It could be "a simple maze with a real passage way," said Van Valkenburgh. "I want to make a place for people to separate themselves from their preoccupations...
...sculpture also may be lit "to give it another kind of life and quality at night," Van Valkenburgh said...
Unfortunately, sheer visual zip is not enough to carry the film; it drags from one scuffle to the next. Deborah Van Valkenburgh, as the love interest of the Warriors' War Chief (Michael Beck), provides a few libidinous moments; a lesbian disco dance scene has its peculiar charms. But The Warriors is not lively enough to be cheap fun or thoughtful enough to be serious. Walter Hill, the talented director of Hard Times, the 1975 boxing movie, badly needs a direction to his career...