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...appears that a good deal of recent horsetrading between the city's two political factions--the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the loosely affiliated Independents--bas left Duchay the favorite to cop the largely ceremonial spot, Cambridge officials said yesterday...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Duehay Will Likely Be Elected Mayor | 7/30/1985 | See Source »

Dozens of ancient coins, Babylonian bas-reliefs, Assyrian and Egyptian monuments, and Hittite tablets found a home at Harvard in 1903 thanks largely to the generosity of one man, Jacob Henry Schiff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lost Treasures Rediscovered | 4/2/1985 | See Source »

...Frank Mel aughim will be looking for his 99th win as a head coach tonight...Quaker Chris Elzey has a stained right root, but is expected to play...Princeton visits Briggs tomorrow night...Harvard, which earlier this season swept Penn Princeton on he road for the first time ever, bas never finished a season 4-0 against the Quakers and Tigers...Cornell, currently tied with Harvard for second place, is at Yale-Brown this weekend. Harvard has won eight at his nine home games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cagers, Penn Battle Tonight for Ivy Lead | 2/22/1985 | See Source »

...frame also has its uses for artists looking to make abstract work more articulate. Two years ago, Robert Morris began showing a series of white bas-relief works that seemed to vent nuclear anxieties in a visual language of medieval fatalism. Embedded in an infernal slurry of plaster, human faces and fractured skeletons held the poses of apocalyptic death agony. This year Morris returned to painting with a series of more ambiguous abstractions. But a skeletal frieze has been retained along the frame to specify the note of mortal dread. Similarly, in 1979 Jasper Johns embedded a train of cutlery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Returning to the Frame Game | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...Alain Delon and a planned film this spring with Burt Lancaster. Renoir just visited New York City to preview a limited edition of 318 bronzes (initial asking price: $15,000 each) that went on sale last week after being cast from great-granddad's newly found terra-cotta bas-relief Woman with Tambourine HI. It is the final sculpture he is known to have done before his death in 1919. Renoir, who does not want to emulate the half-dressed woman posing in the bronzes, limits her movie roles to those that do not call for nudity. In France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 12, 1984 | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

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