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Romney countered with an ad accusing O’Brien of mismanaging state funds and capitulating to a corrupt insider culture on Beacon Hill...
...campaign this fall, Romney cast himself as a political outsider—the kind of person who could use his extensive private-sector experience to “clean up the mess” of inefficiency and corruption that he said plagued Beacon Hill...
...entered the sanctity of the Bristol Lounge feeling as though we belonged. The Bristol Lounge is one of those rare gems that seems to transport you back to an age where ladies really did lunch, gentlemen smoked cigars and cucumber sandwiches were the snack-food of choice. Beacon Hill grandmothers luxuriated on overstuffed armchairs while their tow-headed grandchildren bounced up and down on equally comfortable, homey sofas. Near the elegant bar that lined one side of the room, harassed businesspeople took time out from negotiations to enjoy a pre-dinner drink...
...Judd's mute boxes than the psychodrama of Bourgeois's sculptural pieces, with their sources in the clammiest corners of the psyche and in the meat and moisture of the human body. In recent years she has been showing variations on an enormous metal spider. The one at Dia: Beacon, wedged into a brick-lined confinement, is the best, and best displayed, of any of them, holding in its grip a cage in which you see tattered tapestries that recall the ones Bourgeois's family repaired as a business...
...Hudson Valley, where Dia: Beacon is located, is the place where 19th century American painters discovered the sublime in the natural world, the tradition that some of the Dia artists extend. As the museum settles in further, it can use its 31-acre site to display work outdoors. That is the setting in which Minimalist sculpture makes its most beckoning stand, flaunting its otherness against that worthy opponent, nature. Over the long, slow run, Dia: Beacon may be precisely the place to resolve the question of how to value some of our most imponderable artists. An important part...