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...collection, perhaps even over-represented since the museum already had so much of his output. Yet the new bequest includes 17 extraordinary oil-on-paper studies of the sky, circa 1850, with clouds that are variously stormy, striated, menacing and, rarely, light and fluffy. Boudin, then in his mid-20s, painted them outdoors, with rapid brushstrokes, and sometimes recorded the date, time and wind conditions on the back. He encouraged his friend Monet to try the same technique, an experiment that culminated in Monet's widely acclaimed variations on the Houses of Parliament in London and the waterlilies...
...important that they want to retrieve - their hiking boots, their screenplay, a law degree. "Everybody I know has a version of this," says Susan Reimer-Torn, now a life coach in New York City. "Phase I, you kind of put all the pieces together in your mid- or late 20s, and it almost always involves some kind of trade-off. You figure out what you absolutely must have and end up giving up something else." In Reimer-Torn's case, her priority was a good marriage and raising a family, so 26 years ago, she gave up living...
...hosts performances), as well as offering stops at two of Duke Ellington's childhood homes, the African American Civil War Memorial (the museum is down the block) and the Thurgood Marshall Center--a building that was the nation's first YMCA for blacks and Langston Hughes' home during the '20s. The tour costs $10 and meets the first and third Saturdays of the month at the U Street/ Cardozo Metro station at 13th and U streets...
Garcia said yesterday the two men were white, had larger builds than he does, had Bostonian accents, and appeared to be in their mid to late 20s...
...worry. Parents do influence children's test scores--but what they do is less important than who they are. If parents are high earners, well educated and out of their 20s, for example, their children will do better, according to Department of Education statistics. Staying home with the kids and carting them off to museums, however, has little effect...