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...realized that as many [post-menopausal] women have heart attacks as men [in the same age group]," says Joan A. D'Alessandro, a participant in the dietary component of the WHI. "All we hear about is men. For myself personally, I wanted to hear those answers...
...part of her participation in the dietary trial, the slender D'Alessandro has attended regular private and group sessions with a nutritionist for the past year, discussing eating habits and sampling low-fat dishes...
...have a daughter [who] is 35. We are part of a study group that's going to show [what is] important to her diet," D'Alessandro says...
...also the swan song of its curator, Michel Laclotte, soon to retire as president and director of the Louvre. Like some benign capo, he has called in all his markers at once in a virtuoso display of accumulated borrowing power. His contributing art historians, from Alessandro Ballarin to Konrad Oberhuber, provide clear and scholarly catalog essays; no serious French catalog would dream of using the jargon so popular now in American academe...
...fame were becoming more centralized, it was still possible to sustain a life's work on a provincial reputation. He lived in Emilia most of his life. But Rome was the great magnet, and he almost made it to the Roman big time when his patron, the Bolognese Cardinal Alessandro Ludovisi, became Pope in 1621 and summoned Guercino to the Vatican. There he painted one enormous canvas, the Burial and Reception into Heaven of Saint Petronilla, for an altar in Saint Peter's, but the Pope died in 1623, and back to Cento the painter went. Later he moved...