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Ancient Greece seemed to come back to life as the ungainly wooden ship glided across the harbor. Her prow bore a threatening ram, her stern a boastful curve and her sides bristled with 170 oars. The launching two weeks ago of the trireme,* a replica of the fabled warship that helped the Athenian navy dominate the Mediterranean during the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., was the culmination of a five-year project. As the ship's oars plunged into the wine- dark waters off the island of Poros, John Morrison, the retired Cambridge classics don who helped lead the effort...
...National Museum of Women in the Arts is a virtuous bore. Until ten years ago, with a few resolute exceptions like Georgia O'Keeffe, Mary Cassatt and Louise Nevelson, women artists were shabbily treated by American museums and either omitted from their collections or treated as token presences. The idea that art by women was necessarily second rate lingered discreetly in some quarters through the '70s. Today it is gone, at least in America. Apart from political enlightenment, one of the things that killed it was the growth of the art market. Now that any list of collectors' favorites...
...proper, it was a painful task. Before a national television audience, the Secretary of State described how he and his department had been humiliated, betrayed and ignored, cut out of some of the Reagan Administration's most crucial foreign policy decisions. For the U.S. as well, the witness Shultz bore was painful. His blunt description of "guerrilla warfare" within the Administration, his public denunciation of the way things were run and his refusal to tone down his criticism would have been extraordinary coming from a junior bureaucrat. Coming from the nation's top Cabinet officer, they were unprecedented...
...anonymous letter sent to Father Luis Olivares' Los Angeles church earlier this month bore only the cryptic initials E.M., but its message was alarmingly clear. In El Salvador the letters are short for esquadron de la muerte, a vicious right-wing death squad whose modus operandi is to warn its intended victims that they have been marked for torture or assassination because they are suspected of sympathizing with antigovernment guerrillas. Now Olivares and the estimated 600,000 Salvadorans who have fled to the U.S. to escape the homicidal politics of their homeland fear that the death squads have invaded Southern...
...powerful disease. But we're more powerful." Then Madonna, who lost her "best friend," Painter Martin Burgoyne, 24, to AIDS, rocked the Garden with old songs given pertinent twists. As she sang Papa Don't Preach, the screens flashed Ronald Reagan's image; at song's end, they bore the message SAFE SEX. Everyone got the message from the concert, which raised $400,000 for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR), and from a comic book about AIDS. "Read this booklet," a handwritten note urged, "then give it to your best friend. It just might save...