Brian, Somehow I sense that you take an interest in military history and military aircraft in particular. Assuming that is the case, I just sent a PM to Claes about the Alliance Airshow event this weekend north of Ft. Worth that included the attached link. http://www.allianceairshow.com/Home.aspx Claes and I share an interest in aircraft. Cavanaugh flight museum will often times send a few of their aircraft over to this airshow for display. Included in their collection is a Supermarine Spitfire (I believe Mark VIII?) among many others. I will have camera in hand.
I think Greene may be best remembered in the U.S. for the films made from his novels rather than the books themselves. Especially such brilliant adaptations as The Third Man and Our Man in Havana although, for my money, Brighton Rock is the best film and also his best book. The first two were directed by Carol Reed who was great friend of Greene's and a great director also, probably second only to David Lean among British directors. Unfortunately his novels are still subject to copyright; which is why he doesn't appear in the LitNet gallery of writers.
RE: Graham Greene. I'm afraid I would not be a good source of knowledge regarding Graham Greene's rating in the U.S., yet the name was quite familiar once I placed the face to the name. This has aroused my curiosity though.
Yes it's Graham Greene. He has long been a favourite of mine despite his left leaning stance and the overt Catholicism that often feature in his writing. I don't now how he is rated in the US as his is a very English viewpoint. I like his downbeat style which corresponds to the strain of pessimism in the English character.
Is it perhaps Graham Greene or Harold Pinter? My two guesses are based on a ten minute scanning of internet images.
Well, I hope I haven't insulted my intelligence too severly if it is someone I should readily know. In either case the challenge is mine, no more clues for the moment.
Nope Gilliatt, The man in question was not a superman but he was a super writer. I'll give you a clue, he was English and many of his novels have been filmed.
You've changed! I'm still trying to put my finger on it...a matured Clark Kent maybe? This isn't more of that dadburned avatar swappin is it?
There were height restrictions on buildings in London, but during the 1960's they were abandoned by a Conservative government to facilitate the building of tower blocks of flats to meet their housing target. After which, the sky became the limit; or so it would appear.
A few years ago, there was an exhibition of Norman Foster's architecture in the domed great hall of the British Museum, which is one of Foster's very good designs, and there were the usual monolithic modernist structures displayed; although being a partnership, some of the work that comes out of their studios isn't too jarring to the sensiblities. I haven't actually seen their new dome on the Reichstag in Berlin because the last time I was there was before it was built but I understand from photo's and what I have read that it is quite successful, although I still prefer the pre-war dome as seen in newsreels etc. As for the Dallas Arts Centre shown in your first clip, my own view is that it is an agressive and unattractive design fairly typical of what one has come to expect nowadays. It may well be that the interior is less intimidating and functions well for its purpose but, like the Berlin Philharmonic Hall that has a brilliant interior, I find the outside appearence depressing.
