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On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

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I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

1995, Cancer, Men, Real, Tragedy
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Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3. 32 p. m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

Block, Grace, Igoe, Infamous, July, Pruitt

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Art, Believe, Sensational, Should Have

Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage

Curvilinear, Irrational, Matter, Perspective, Space

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

Look, Looks, Self, Tree, Using, Variation

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

1979, Kitsch, Ornament, Ornaments, Postmodernism, Understanding
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