Word: artful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author is an expert on the painting of the 18th and 19th centuries and a teacher at London's Courtauld Institute of Art. Her six previous novels include Hotel du Lac, the 1984 winner of Britain's top fiction award, the Booker Prize. Yet despite her finished style and genteel settings, she is as hard-boiled as any writer of detective fiction. Many of Brookner's principals are updatings of that familiar character, the English spinster as connoisseur of other people's behavior. Rachel is not only unattached but detached, a state that suits her analytical intelligence and chilly rectitude...
...ART DIRECTOR: Rudolph Hoglund...
...finest glass may be created in Venice, but the Quincy House Theatricals create a true work of art themselves in their version of Tennssee Williams' The Glass Menagerie...
...Americans [will be] given the opportunity to be exposed to Soviet art," said Lisa C. Stearns. a publicist for the festival. Three of the Soviet companies participating in the festival had never performed in the U.S. before, Stearns said...
Blakely A. Rogers '88 spends her Friday morning classes cutting and pasting construction paper. She is not in a Visual and Environmental Studies class--Rogers works with children's art classes in the Longfellow elementary school, where she has also done math tutoring as part of Harvard's House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) program. She is only one of more than 100 Harvard students who volunteer in the Cambridge Public Schools...