Architect Dies - A teaser, a typo and a goof
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ARCHITECT DIES
The opening of an architectural exhibition was marred yesterday by the death of one of its organisers, the American architect Stourley Kracklite, who threw himself from a third storey window. It is believed that Mr Kracklite was suffering from depression, and was in financial difficulties. He leaves a two-day old child. His widow is recovering in hospital. The exhibition on the French architectural genius, Etienne-Louis Boullée, is open till the 28th of May, and features a 30 meter high model of his most famous building, the memorial to Sir Isac Newton.
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So this is clearly a teaser for Peter Greenway’s "The belly of an architect", which premiered two years after "A Zed and two Noughts". You can read it on the side of the newspaper fragment, which prominently features "TWO WIVES DEAD IN CAR - SWAN CRASH TWO DIE". There is a typo in the text, it is Isac without the second a.
On the same page, even including a small picture is a second teaser for "The belly od the architect“:
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A COLD SMELL
A man described by the police as a „confused vagabond“ used a heavy stone to shatter or damage 68 busts yesterday in the Roman Park of the Villa Borghesi. He was detained while carrying a baf dull of noses chipped off the statues.
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There is also an article on a 50-year old man having had an heart-attack, a teaser for „Drowning in Numbers“ (1988) and an article that could explain the zebra head in the lion cage at the beginning: „Panicked zebra“, about a Grevy’s zebra’s who rammed his head into a brick wall in panic, because of a man with a cross-bow, who then was accused at the court of Newhaven. The zebra never fully recovered. It was humanly destroyed and its body incinerated. What’s remarkable: The main events of „A Zed and two Noughts, „The belly of an architect“ and „Drowning in Numbers“ all happened on the same day.
The goof: The newspaper page featured at the beginning is clearly different from the one with the broken glass on it featured later. Although the text and the general layout is the same, the main picture is different. The second one is also smaller in height, revealing most of the text underneath.
Some parts are still covered by the glass fragments, but you can clearly read that the two wives are called Griselda and Paula, while "Mrs Zekla Bewick is seriously ill at hospital", which must be Alba Bewick [as called so in the end credits]. Wether Peter Greenaway changed the name during production, or "Zekla" is Alba's real name, I can't say. But maybe she is both: Alive she was Z, the symbol for the end and with her death she became A the beginning of new life.