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...Irish Brooklyn of the '20s and '30s, the play traces the early life of a working-class girl, played by Faye Dunaway. The production met mixed but generally negative reviews from the dailies yesterday...
...letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, Dublin Gynecologist Colm O'Herlihy notes the case of two women in their mid-20s who regularly ran about 20 miles a week. Both had stopped taking birth-control pills a year ago, and neither had menstruated since. O'Herlihy prescribed high doses of the fertility drug clomiphene citrate but without result. Finally, he asked his patients to lay off the trackwork. Within eight weeks, both had ovulated while taking half the original doses of clomiphene. Shortly thereafter both became pregnant...
Winchester. It is not even clear that they were entirely mollified when he became, as the five volumes of Modern Painters began to appear when he was in his mid-20s, the pre-eminent art critic of England...
...galleries in recent weeks. The neoexpressionists are presented as missionary confreres: burning with social idealism and certified angst, robed in rough paint (crudity equals sincerity) and the turgid hyperbole of German critics. Their work is meant to evoke the fervor and spiritual elevation of German art in the '20s-Nolde, Beckmann, Kirchner, Macke. If only it could! What we get, it turns out, is more art about art about art, another small room in the mirror-lined flophouse of late modernity. This sort of idealist regression seems either contrived or inept, and sometimes both. It mimics deep feeling...
...that feigns an archaic or tribal look is that the former was once dense with social meaning, whereas the latter, being deracinated and arbitrary, has little or none. But romanticizing the primitive, along with the instinctive and the natural, was central to expressionism in the '20s, and must be revived along with its look...