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...Chill and Broadway's The Real Thing. This year for a topper, Close, 37, is trying two of each. The Connecticut-born actress opens this week in an off-Broadway play, Childhood, and recently did an off-off-Broadway performance of Arthur Honegger's oratorio Joan of Arc at the Stake. At the same time, she has two movies in the can: The Jagged Edge, a courtroom drama, and Maxie, a romantic comedy about a 1920s actress whose spirit materializes in the present. "I love doing comedy," enthuses Close, "and I love dressing up." But given the choice...
...installed in Federal Plaza. It was certainly major: a curving, unbroken wall of steel plate, twice the height of a tall man and 120 ft. long. The plates leaned inward slightly but emphatically and cut diagonally across the plaza -- a raw, rusty, hulking gesture. Its title was Tilted Arc, its author was Richard Serra, and it was commissioned by the General Services Administration, a branch of the Federal Government, as part of its Art-in-Architecture program. The cost...
...loathing to many of the people who worked in offices around it; they complained that it prevented their crossing or even using the space. In March the regional administrator of the GSA, William J. Diamond, convened a public hearing to gather opinions (both expert and lay) on Tilted Arc. Some 180 people spoke, two-thirds pro, one- third con. Last month a GSA-appointed panel recommended, based on the hearing, that the sculpture be removed, but the final decision will be made in Washington by GSA Acting Administrator Dwight Ink. The piece's public unpopularity is not shared...
Cunningham is fondly called "Joan of Arc" by her teammates, because of her habit of leading them in large arcs around the outfield when the squad runs between the foul lines to warm...
...Joan doesn't run straight lines," freshman Callie Huber says. "You know how Joan of Arc was a martyr--that's what she makes me think...