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...pleasant subject to discuss. Nobody is a fan of abortion; it is only that some, myself included, believe in the necessity of choice. But who wants to talk about abortion and open a moral can of worms? So it is rarely mentioned; and until someone is shot through their window, I am complacent about my freedom of choice...
...Williams asks a fellow heavenite played by Cuba Gooding Jr., who replies, "He's up there somewhere, shouting down that he loves us." Not only is this dialogue unplayable (kudos to Gooding for not even sniggering); it makes God sound slovenly, like a bosomy mama hanging out a tenement window in an old Italian movie. The denizens of hell, meanwhile, appear to be damned for their lack of self-esteem--a quintessentially '90s view of sin. Forgive yourself, and cue beautiful music...
...reported in this magazine, here's what happened next: "Communist terrorists (who obviously had cased the place well) crept out of the darkness and surrounded the mess hall. Two positioned a French MAT machine gun in the rear window, two pushed gun muzzles through the pantry screen, the other two went to the front of the building to cover the Vietnamese guard. When Sergeant Ovnand snapped on the lights to change the first reel, the Communists opened fire...
...regulations and the precarious place of modern architecture in the chronology of currently developing cities posed difficult obstacles for him. In the German Museum of Decorative Arts, a zoning restriction which divided the building into five-story and seven-story sections led to the inclusion of a large, delineated window (filled with space not glass) on one side of the building. This odd appendage later evolved into a characteristic feature of the design and symbol of the museum. His 1986 Stadthaus in Ulm, Germany was only built after a tenth referendum finally approved its construction. The building was intended...
Fifteen years later, the sign still shines in a steady constant glow so that "sometimes when [BU students] get bored [they can] turn out the lights, look out of [their] window and pretend that the Citgo sign is a giant disco ball shining light into [their] own private Studio 54." Well, no one ever said Boston was that exciting anyway...