Apparently typical of its period, it would have transformed the living arrangements of the Wake family who built it.
However, Japan still faces many stiff challenges until it breaks out of its period of deflation.
The value of these Boy's Own adventures lies in the inspiration, surely -- in the indefinable dash of human greatness that loosens the story from the moorings of its period and ushers it into the immortal zone.
But it is a major work of its period that, by the criteria of such things, means it should be considered.
I like that very much, because you are forced to look at the piece for what it is: an opera at once absolutely of its period, and yet beautifully removed from it.
Around 1946, the 18-foot-wide town house had been shorn of its period embellishments, and since 1954 it had been multitasking as a two-family home with a medical office on the street level.
The house has been renovated within the last five years to include up-to-date appliances, but it still has most of its period details, including exposed beams and side windows along the front door that retain their original glass.
A four-story town house built in 1889, it still has virtually all of its period details, said the owner, Richard Dudley, who is a psychiatrist.
Built by James Evans, a protégé of Louis Kahn, the house had all the optimism of its period, as Mr. Dean put it recently, "when architects thought they had made a breakthrough to a fresh new time".
It certainly was an authentic manifestation of its period.
More's the pity, because it's a crucial British film of its period, and a key to our larger understanding of Kubrick himself.
