In a message dated 5/10/99 1:50:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< Perhaps also an issue of "photographic architecture" here-- the tendency to
 laud a building or buildings for the quality of the Architectural Digest
 photo layout, rather than its real-world (3D) appeal in context? >>

Heidi, your remarks on phototecture are well-taken.  I sure haven't seen it
in the flesh. How does the Sydney Opera House actually look up close?  What
buildings do we have in New York that look great in photographs but - in the
flesh - are disappointing?

Signed,  Christopher "never kissed a kangaroo" Gray